Meteorites

artist illustration of bright sun surrounded by glowing disk of matter

Ceramic chips inside meteorites hint at wild days of the early solar system

black and white image, close-up of crystalline dust fragment

UChicago, Field Museum scientists discover oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

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Blue crystals in meteorites show that sun behaved like ‘high-energy toddler’

Today's rare meteorites were common 466 million years ago, study finds

Isotopic similarities seen in materials that formed Earth, moon

Solar system could have evolved from poorly mixed elemental soup

Cosmochemists find evidence of rare element in early solar system

Study shows how planetary building blocks evolved from porous to hard objects

Cosmochemist discovers potential solution to meteorite mystery

Exploding star missing from formation of solar system