In December 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped its treasure through the Earth’s atmosphere and onto the red d...
22 million years ago, something smashed into the big, bright Vesta asteroid, ejecting a meteoroid into space.Scie...
Stony meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites show signs of liquid water no more than a million years ago, scient...
The matter of the Universe?Astronomers in the US say they have precisely measured the total amount of matter in t...
Scientists studying a rare type of meteorite have discovered that much of Earth’s water may have formed when our plan...
50 years ago, a meteorite landed in Victoria carrying many of the building blocks for life, including amino acids, nu...
Evidence that the 70-kilometre wide Yarrabubba crater in outback Western Australia may be the Earth’s oldest known me...
Scientists say a meteorite that landed in Australia half a century ago contained the oldest solid material ever found...
Rocks explode in Earth’s atmosphere fairly regularly, and at first glance a bolide spotted over South Australia in 20...
By Richard A. LovettScientists studying an 82-gram meteorite discovered in the mountains of southern Algeria in 1990 ...
Why is it that meteoroids in outer space are randomly shaped, but a good proportion of those that reach the Earth as ...
In the remote desert of western Egypt, near the Libyan border, lie clues to an ancient cosmic cataclysm. Libyan deser...
