meteoritics and planetary science Archives

Rare meteorites reveal Mars collision caused water flow

Rare fragments of Martian meteorites have been investigated at the University of Leicester revealing one of the ways water flowed near the surface of Mars.
Scientists at the University’s renowned Space Research Centre, in the Department of P…

Meteorite just one piece of an unknown celestial body

Washington, D.C. — Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan’s Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying the meteorite fragments that wer…