and palladium. Those elements are generally rare on Earth, but common in meteorites, though they appear to have spread widely during the collision because they are found right across the Earth.

The meteorite was inherited from the previous farmland owner, who says it came down in the 1930s. Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the ...

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 ...

Curtin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. We’ve discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

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 ...