One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas Zarcas found to have been in orbit for two million years without ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In April 2019, primitive meteorites fell near Aguas Zarcas, Costa Rica, marking the largest fall of its kind since 1969. The meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the sun. Those rocks originate from a small number ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Study opens new doors for studying how meteorite impacts might have influenced Earth. In Western Australia, researchers have made a significant discovery: they have found the oldest meteorite ...

Video / David Greig The hunt is on in Hawke’s Bay for New Zealand’s 11th meteorite after a fireball was filmed streaking across the night sky. And one meteorite-hunter believes someone’s ...

Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater was just found in WA’s Pilbara region – exactly where geologists hoped it would be. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...

The burning meteorite was observed by people at around 2:43am, a flurry of excitement as videos of the spectacular celestial phenomenon flooded social media platforms. This event, often referred ...

Life on Earth could have been started by a gigantic meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest, scientists have discovered. Experts claim every person on planet Earth descends from the same ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — Miso is a traditional Japanese condiment made by fermenting cooked soybeans and salt. Researchers successfully made miso on the International Space Station (ISS). They found that ...