Have you ever seen a watch made of meteorite? ✓ Daan goes hands-on with Christiaan van der Klaauw's Grand Planetarium ...

At 4.5 billion years old, the Imilac meteorite dates back to the beginning of our solar system. Professor Caroline Smith, our Head of Collections and a meteorite expert, sheds light on the secrets the ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

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.

Languages: English. Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate.

Interactions between Earth and the solar system have profoundly shaped ... equally transformative celestial event—an ancient ring system similar to those of Saturn or Uranus.

The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it.

The stony meteorite, called asteroid 2008 TC 3 ... planet formed - and completely destroyed - at the dawn of the solar system. '[T]his is the first compelling evidence for such a large body ...