On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, a rock smashed through the back windshield of an SUV parked in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was a chaotic, lifeless world — a fiery hell with spewing volcanoes and meteorite impacts ...

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

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system. What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid?

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 ...