Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the sun. Those rocks originate from a small number ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...

(WJAR) — A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident’s ice cream container, university officials said. According to university officials, a ...

Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system. What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid?