Scientists Use Google Maps to Confirm 390-Million-Year-Old Crater
One of the key things geophysicists look for is evidence of shock metamorphism, which can only occur due…
This Strange Martian Rock Contains a Mineral Scientists Never Expected To Find
Mars, the red planet. Credit: University of Portsmouth Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown Martian rock containing a…
A meteorite impact may have once rained gold on Western Australia
The goldfields in Western Australia. Credit: Aaron Cavosie We’re used to a lot of different natural things falling…
Ancient Meteorite Reveals a Forgotten Planet That Existed 4.5 Billion Years Ago
An ancient meteorite may be the last surviving remnant of a vanished protoplanet. Credit: Stock A rare meteorite…
Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert
The solar system as we know it today began to form roughly 4.6 billion years ago, with the…
A Giant ‘Planet Factory’ Beyond Jupiter May Have Churned out the Building Blocks of the Solar System
Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse…
Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies…
‘Pinprick of light’: Artemis crew witnesses meteorite impacts on moon
The phenomenon is “something that we have not witnessed often,” the mission’s back-up astronaut Jenni Gibbons told AFP.…
Inside 2026’s Massive Fireball Surge
Still from video captured by NWS Pittsburgh’s Jared Rackley via X. On a Saturday afternoon this past March,…
6-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Strike Created a Massive Field of Natural Glass in Brazil
Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath…
Researchers Find Surprisingly “Young” Meteorite Crater from the Dawn of Human Civilization
A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled,…