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

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

This is particularly puzzling, as a vast majority of meteorites can be traced to some well-known parent body—whether that be ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

But researchers have long remained perplexed by what they found—or ... generated from the intense pressure following a meteorite striking Earth—and in this case, the shatter cones suggest ...

The team from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences ... of the Pilbara region of Western Australia—and found evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 billion years ago.

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region ... The oldest rocks on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ago, and are found in the cores ...