Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a ...

Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Natural History Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system. On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...

The meteorite weighs 4.05 kilograms and is 15 centimeters long, 17 cm wide and 10 cm tall, according to the museum in the capital’s Taito Ward. It landed in what currently is Koshigaya’s Ozato ...