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Where do meteorites of different types come from?

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for traces of ancient water and potential biosignatures, but ...
A French distillery is using a meteorite discovered in Nebraska in 1977 to flavor its Shooting Star Vodka. Credit: Diana Robinson Photography via Getty Images Maxime Girardin descends from a long line ...
Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...
In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Credit: Kurosawa Kosuke Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe ...
Roger Lawrence Gibson receives funding from the NRF. Deon van Niekerk does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article ...
In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Kurosawa says: “We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject ...