A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

The gas giants in the outer solar system are the homes to ring systems today, but almost half a billion years ago, our planet ...

Their millimetre-sized granules give chondrites their name, from the Greek 'chondres' meaning sand grains. There are many varieties of chondrite, with differences in mineralogy relating to the type of ...

“We noticed that there’s a perfect overlap with carbonaceous chondrite signatures,” Goderis said. Therefore, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was probably a carbonaceous ...

A recent study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals evidence that Earth may have had a ring ...

The C-type (chondrite) asteroids are most common and are some of the solar system’s most ancient objects. They are dark in appearance and are likely made of clay and silicate rocks. The S-types ...

The meteorite found in Sumatra is a carbonaceous chondrite, "remnants of the early solar system offer a window back in time to events that occurred prior to planet formation", Jason Scott Herrin ...

Rob Wilcock (Reproduced by permission) The anonymous driveway owner has donated his find to science It's carbonaceous chondrite - a stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the ...

and Müller, R.D., 2020. Earth-Science Reviews, p.103477 Là où l'enquête devient passionnante, c'est qu'il est connu depuis ...

I am unravelling the history of an unusual group of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that are believed to be similar to a certain group of water bearing asteroids; two of which are the targets of a ...