"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

We think of impact events as being disastrous for life,” Harvard geologist Nadja Drabon explains, but one such impact by a ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

A fireball dubbed the Mother's Day Meteorite has been found in a salt lake in Western Australia by a country police officer ...

Gem-quality peridot has been identified in multiple pallasite meteorites, earning it the title of a “gemstone from another ...

Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the red ...

Researchers initially believed the unnamed meteorite hit Earth 1.17 billion years ago, creating the Stac Fada Member rock ...

While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact in Western Australia and now the 1-billion-year-old Stac Fada deposit in ...

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Researchers initially believed the unnamed meteorite hit Earth 1.17 billion years ago, creating the Stac Fada Member rock layer in northwestern Scotland. However, a new study has determined that ...

But the long-term effects could support key biological processes. Meteorite strikes fracture rocks, generate long-lived hydrothermal systems and form crater lakes that enable the concentration of ...