Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

Found in a drawer Thanks to research, quite a bit is known about the Lafayette Meteorite's origin story. It was ejected from the surface of Mars about 11 million years ago by an impact event. "We ...

"We can identify meteorites by studying what minerals are present in them and the relationships between these minerals inside the meteorite," says Tremblay. "Meteorites are often denser than Earth ...

Scientists think they may have come from space. For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the possibility that they were Earth-based contamination.