"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

The ability to detect meteorites through weather radar not only accelerates the recovery process but also enhances the ...

Researchers in Australia found the crater in Western ... In addition, the Pilbara crater sheds new light on how meteorites shaped the Earth's early environment, said Chris Kirkland, a geologist ...

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 ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

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

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western ... Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) say the new recordholder is located about 660 miles north ...

This discovery challenges our understanding of Earth’s early history and could shed light on the origins of life.

"Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on ... the discovery shed new light on how meteorites shaped ...