A thin section view of what is known as meteoritic ejecta deposit found at the impact site in Skye Geologists have raised concern about rocks being taken from a 60-million-year-old meteorite ...

Check if the rock feels heavy, as meteorites are dense and feel heavier than most other rocks Test if the rock has magnetic ability using a fridge magnet, as nearly all meteorites have iron-nickel ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study ...

In 2015, David Hole discovered a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite in Maryborough, Australia. Initially mistaking it for a gold nugget, experts later identified it as an H5 chondrite meteorite ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there. A new analysis of the rock reveals evidence of liquid water on Mars ...

In this publication, her team demonstrated that the age obtained for the timing of water-rock interaction ... Finally, we can use the chemistry of meteorites (specifically their oxygen isotope ...

an American scientist involved in landing site selection and data analyses of the Apollo space missions that brought to Earth the first rock samples from the Moon. Part of the meteorite Oued ...

Part of a giant meteorite from outer space has been safely recovered from a Russian lake, online news website RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. As scuba divers tried to raise the rock from the ...