Researchers discovered the crater thanks to the distinctive rock formations that only form under the intense pressure of a meteorite impact. In this particular case, it is estimated that the ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.

The researchers found that our solar system was at its ... high-energy impacts from meteorites during Earth's youth ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

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

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater ... the Pilbara region of Western Australia—and found evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western ... by oceans extending far deeper than those found today. Even so, its geology records can be ...

“One other meteorite may well measure the age of the Koronis3 cluster: about 83 million years.” Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion ... Researchers in Australia found the crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region and believe ...