A cross-section of a piece of the Allende meteorite. The beads of glass inside these meteorites are called chondrules. Scientists think they are bits of rock left over from the debris that was ...

Photograph of impact glass beads under binocular microscope separated from the Chang’e-5 lunar soils. The glass beads vary from black to brown in tens to hundreds of micrometer sizes. (Sen Hu/IGGCAS) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory ...

How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and evolved over the aeons is a hot question for planetary scientists like me. One of the best ways to find out is by looking at rocks from ...

A strange type of glass that was discovered in 1933 in the Libyan desert may come from a meteorite, an analysis shows, but impact crater is still missing. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The article discusses how increasing disorder in the atomic structure of materials influences macroscopic heat conduction — a critical property for heat-management technologies. The materials studied ...

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled—and fascinated—by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and evolved over the eons is a hot question for planetary scientists like me. One of the best ways to find out is by looking at rocks from ...

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled–and fascinated–by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

Scientists have published an analysis laying out how the tiny beads of glass inside many meteorites came to be -- and what they can tell us about what happened in the early solar system. Ever since ...