As we know, meteorites can be split into three groups: stony, irons and stony-irons. If you look at the world collections of meteorites, the vast majority are stony meteorites; only 5.5% are ...

Encrusted with green crystals, Erg Chech 002 is a type of stony meteorite called an achondrite rock that has features similar to volcanic rock and is among the oldest known to date.

The achondrite meteorites can be much younger: some of lunar meteorites are only 2.9 billion years old and some of the Martian meteorites are only 200 million years old.

A new study, published in the journal Nature, brings scientists one step closer to answering the question of where Earth's water came from.

Meteorites contain a wealth of information about the origins of our solar system, helping us to understand their, and even Earth’s, origin and evolution.

ITS discoverer, Gustav Tschermak, assigned the name “Maskelynite” to an isotropic substance with the chemical composition of plagioclase, which occurred in the Shergotty achondritic stony ...

Erg Chech 002 is an andesitic achondrite – a type of stony meteorite among the oldest known of to date (Picture: PA) A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite could shed light on the early solar system ...

Researchers now believe that the water on Earth did not originate from melted meteorites, despite earlier claims to the contrary. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water, yet ...

As the result of an unusual find by the joint managers of Mount Padbury sheep station, near Meekatharra, Western Australia (latitude 25° 40′ S.; longitude 118° 06′ E.), a peculiar occurrence ...

Earth’s water did not come from melted meteorites – study Researchers analysed melted meteorites that had been floating around in space since the solar system around 4.5 billion years ago ...

Earth’s water did not come from melted meteorites as previous theories had suggested, researchers say. Water makes up 71 per cent of Earth’s surface, but it is not yet known how or when such ...