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

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.

When 3 meteorite pieces struck Khalwat Nimgaon, it upended village life and set off a frantic hunt for a missing fragment.

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

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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 ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

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

Scientists and engineers at the University of Nottingham have measured the stiffness of space rock for the first time. Many meteorites are made of crystalline materials, formed under exotic conditions ...

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

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