At 4.5 billion years old, the Imilac meteorite dates back to the beginning of our solar system. Dr Caroline Smith, Head of Earth Sciences Collections at the Museum, sheds light on the secrets the ...

They've determined this from a rather unlikely source: iron meteorites. Our solar system formed about 4.6 ... should not have been able to "jump" from ring to ring to end up in the outer disk.

NASA experts, to explain this phenomenon, used information from the orbits of comets and the gravitational forces from inside and outside our solar system to build a model of the structure of the ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment ... can these 2 solar-powered probes survive?

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?

Then, in 1969, the Murchison meteorite smashed into Australia. One of the oldest known remnants of the pre-Earth solar system, this meteorite played a pivotal role in confirming the presence of ...

The Meteorite is a Sorcery introduced in Elden Ring. One of the glintstone sorceries that manipulates gravitational forces. Summons a void that emits a rain of small meteorites. Hold to continue ...

and so they preserve an unblemished record of the conditions in the early solar system. The vast majority of the roughly 63,000 meteorites we have found are of a variety called stony meteorites.