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 container, university ...

One of the oldest known remnants of the pre-Earth solar system, this meteorite played a pivotal role in confirming the presence of carbon molecules elsewhere in the universe. Explore this timeline ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Charcoal and graphite are also allotropes of carbon. However, there’s another allotrope—first identified in 1967 when scientists examining a meteorite in Canyon Diablo, Arizona—known today ...

But under the right circumstances, carbon can arrange itself hexagonally, forming a hardier material known as lonsdaleite. We know about the existence of lonsdaleite thanks to a meteorite impact ...