It's not just a rock, it's a space rock! So, what do you do if you find a space rock here on planet Earth? It depends on ...

Earth’s rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet’s ...

Mystery of strange unscathed meteorite that crashed onto Costa Rica forest finally unravelled - Parent rock likely came from ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

“One other meteorite may well measure the age of the Koronis3 cluster: about 83 million years.” Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to originate ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Murphy, curator of geology at the Denver Museum of Natural History, delights in the information for its own sake as much as he appreciates how it helps with hunting meteorites. "I really hope to find ...

Meteorites are most easily found when they have fallen on grass, sand or ice, in other words, somewhere where there are no other stones. At times, the fall of a meteorite is noticed, and it can, for ...

"One other meteorite may well measure the age of the Koronis3 cluster: about 83 million years." Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to ...

They found that they could make the nucleobases at concentrations similar to those found on the meteorites, he says, “providing additional evidence that nucleobases can be formed in space.” “It’s very ...