The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from are common. Astronomers have long had an explanation for this paradox, but ...

The type of meteorite that produces the fragments that littered Winchcombe was made of carbonaceous chondrite. These types of meteorites contain extremely old and largely untainted material from a ...

It challenges conventional thought of the "fragile" carbonaceous chondrite class it belongs to. This meteorite has captured people's imaginations since it shot through Earth's atmosphere in April ...