On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, a rock smashed through the back windshield of an SUV parked in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, ...

A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident's ice cream, university officials ...

Brown University scientists are receiving some sweet recognition after identifying a meteorite that crashed through a car window and into a carton of ice cream in Pennsylvania nearly two years ago.

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

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

These studies show that Mars is bombarded by meteorites far more often than previously thought — about 2.5 times more ...

Meteoritics is the study of meteorites — solid parts of asteroids or comets that have landed on another celestial body, notably (but not limited to) the Earth. Measuring the composition of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an “extraterrestrial metal” in ancient burials in Poland that is believed to be found only in meteorites. Four artifacts – three bracelets and a pin ...

The items had varying levels of meteorite elements mixed with the other iron, researchers said. Muzeum Częstochowskie Screengrab from Archeologia Żywa's Facebook post ...

It was first identified in 1967 from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, in Arizona, USA, regarded as one of the best-preserved meteorite craters on Earth. It was named after crystallographer Professor Dame ...

Did you ever go out with friends as a child and roam around the neighborhood, pretending to look for space rocks? Any time you found something that looked "out of the ordinary", you would come up with ...

They extracted molybdenum samples from meteorites stored at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution to track Earth's early chemical history. By comparing the isotopic ...