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

Perseverance discovers egg-like spherules in a Mars rock, now NASA is forming a strategy to investigate this in more detail.

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In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

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.

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than ... is enough to eject the surrounding highly-shocked rock material into space. Such explosions occur on carbon-rich ...

“A fundamental question for planetary scientists is how Earth came to look like it does today. We now think that the material that built our planet–which we can study using these rare ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into ... life-essential elements, like carbon, were distributed throughout the solar system. Related: What are meteorites? To find a solution ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other? You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites ... larger bodies like the dwarf planet Ceres should ...