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

He was not involved in the new study. Scientists recognized meteorites collected in the region in 1979 and 1981 as originating from the moon, Righter noted. Before these finds, the only samples ...

and Delivers Inspiring Speech: ‘Fly Among the Stars’ It didn’t occur to Mazurek to take the rock in for inspection until a recent meteorite shower in Michigan occurred on Jan. 17 ...

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

Scientists analyzed stardust from a meteorite that fell to Earth 50 years ago which revealed the 5 to 7 billion-year-old stardust to be the oldest solid material on Earth. This dust was made of ...

“This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue,” said meteor astronomer and ... Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Loud Boom That 'Created Panic' in Texas Was Caused by Meteorite: 'We've Solved the Mystery,' Officials Say Scientists with The College of New Jersey conducted a visual and density examination and ...

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 ...

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Large asteroids are expected to hit Earth once every 2000 years. The most damaging meteorite strike in recent times was the Tunguska event, a megaton-scale explosion that destroyed a swathe of ...