Essentially, a scientist must take a tiny chip of a primitive meteorite and dissolve 99.9999% of it until they're left with a residue of silicon carbide, graphite and nanodiamonds. Things that are ...

Thanks to the massive impact of the meteorite, sufficient force caused ... production of additional carbon-based materials like graphite and diamonds too, as they explained in the paper.

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

On April 1, Discovery Alert reported: The graphite supply war: How global shortages threaten industries. Global natural graphite production in 2024 reached approximately 1.3 million tonnes ...

Meteorites carry clues that are pivotal in exploring the history of our Solar System, yet they don’t all look the same after impact. Colliding with a planetary surface sends shockwaves through ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into space." What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other?

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate.

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology. This ...

Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to new research that discovers why streams of comet dust bob and weave in and out ...

The Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks on the mornings of May 5 and 6. The meteor shower is visible with the naked eye, but telescopes or binoculars enhance the experience. It's almost time to look ...