A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident's ice cream, university officials ...

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 ...

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...

Have you ever had the stellar experience of spotting a meteorite falling from the sky? It seems pretty impossible, right?

The scientists involved were able to identify it through the “shatter cones” that are left behind by the intense pressure of a strike by a meteorite. “We know large impacts were common in ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

through the university's meteorite identification network, their find was authenticated. Coincidentally, Chris Herd was due to visit Prince Edward Island just ten days later for family reasons ...

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.

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...

Using multiple types of advanced scans and chemical testing, the researchers were able to identify the elemental ... The items had varying levels of meteorite elements mixed with the other iron ...