Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our solar system ...

A University of Colorado Boulder study has found that a rare type of meteorite likely came from a giant, ancient protoplanet that once existed in the solar system. Aaron Bell, a CU Boulder assistant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A thin slice of the NWA 12774 meteorite. The colors arise from various minerals responding to the slice’s illumination by ...

Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a handful are known as angrites—and at least one of them might be the remnant of ...

Scientists studying a rare, ancient angrite meteorite found in the Sahara Desert have uncovered evidence of a lost protoplanet from the early Solar System.

A meteorite found in the Sahara is forcing scientists to rethink what kinds of worlds once circled the young sun. The rock, called Northwest Africa 12774, belongs to a rare class of meteorites known ...

Most meteor showers are seen after dark, but the Arietids offer a rare chance to spot shooting stars in the dawn sky.