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

The family-friendly show will take place at the New Jersey Convention and Expo Center in Edison from Wednesday, May 14 ...

A meteorite impact in Scotland happened 990 million years ago, not 1.2 billion as previously thought, possibly influencing ...

Pune: A meteorite that crashed through the roof of Kiran Babanrao Thakre's house at Kopargaon village in Ahilyanagar district ...

The following checklist is very helpful: If you can answer all questions with "yes", you may have found a meteorite! In some (rare) cases, one of the answers may be "No" and the find may still be an ...

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion ... “These microscopic crystals recorded the exact moment of impact, with some even transforming into an incredibly rare mineral called ...

An ancient meteorite strike hit what is now Scotland significantly later than previously thought, scientists say. The finding ...

Determining when a meteorite struck is no easy task ... Suitable minerals are extremely rare, but we found a few in the Stac Fada rocks. One was reidite, a mineral that only forms under extreme ...

"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?

Such explosions occur on carbon-rich meteorites, but not on carbon-poor ones,” said author Kosuke Kurosawa, an astrophysicist at Kobe University in Japan, in a press release. Carbonaceous chondrites ...