Like a shelf in an old house, the Earth collects a lot of dust from its surroundings. This "space dust" is mostly made up of ...

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It implies or requires that the angrite parent body had to be big, but the question is, where is it now?” CU Boulder ...

As the director of the Peters Observatory at Hamilton College, I have seen many similar streaks across the sky, as I spend ...

People often use the words meteor and meteorite interchangeably, usually when describing a bright streak of light crossing the night sky. The distinction is simple, though the objects involved are ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As the director of the Peters Observatory at Hamilton College, I have seen many ...

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky? As the director of the ...

Numerous people collect rocks and suspect they’re meteorites, either because they look odd or because they believe they have seen a “fall” and have recovered an object. But it’s virtually impossible ...

A slice of the rare angrite meteorite NWA 12774 shows olivine crystal (green), a mineral rich in magnesium. John Kashuba A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite found in the Sahara Desert could be evidence ...

Much of modern astronomy revolves around the study of strange alien worlds—from the sun’s retinue of satellites to the thousands of known exoplanets orbiting other stars. But what about a world that ...

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The meteorite that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod Bay," NASA researchers say. Initially reported as a meteor that exploded about ...