Kelly, A. O., and Dachille, Frank, Target: Earth. The Role of Large Meteors in Earth Science (published by the authors, 1953).

The small, round particles, which can be glassy or crystalline, occur when large meteorites hit Earth, and they form sedimentary layers in rocks that are known as spherule beds. The team collected ...

When it comes to life and its history on Earth, meteorite impacts have been one of the ever-present threats to total extinction. It's even possible that life may have had multiple beginnings ...

Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Some large meteorites survive their descent through our atmosphere and land on Earth. In 2021, cameras recorded the fall of the Winchcombe meteorite, allowing scientists to trace its cosmic origin.

The asteroid would be broken into smaller fragments, which would keep moving in much the same direction. Instead of being hit by one large asteroid, Earth would be hit by a swarm of smaller objects.

In 1954 in Alabama, a meteorite the size of a grapefruit crashed through a roof, bounced off a radio and hit Anne Hodges as she sat in her living room. Luckily she got away with just bruising and ...

Uruguayan authorities at the port of Paysandú have seized a meteorite worth around US$ 1 million when it was being smuggled into the country from Argentina, it was reported earlier this week.