Korenaga is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University. He tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about how gold got ...

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

Discover the journey of Odisha's Bholghati Meteorite from its fall in 1905 to preservation at New York's American Museum.

Research into the impacts of rocket and satellite air pollution is being cut by the Trump administration. Experts say the ...

Although the biggest, the 1916 bolide was far from the only meteor to threaten the Cincinnati region. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune [Jun 7, 1904] reported a meteor plunging into the sidewalk at ...

These infrasound sensors can help determine falling space objects' trajectory ... the world's oceans where most space junk and meteorites crash to Earth or burn up in the atmosphere.

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey to Venus more than 50 years ago. On average ...

while about 50 tons per year of meteorites crash land somewhere on the surface. Since the 1960s, space junk has also occasionally returned to Earth, falling from a hazy sphere of trash encircling ...

That makes it challenging to use astronomical observations alone to match meteorites to their asteroid parents. When someone witnesses a meteorite falling to Earth, scientists can try to backtrack ...

Because of this, the team believes it is extremely unlikely that LAR 12252’s hydrogen sulfide originated on Earth. While this may at first sound like it supports the theory that meteorites ...

These types of meteorites were formed in the inner solar system and “probably represented the bulk contribution of the material that formed Earth 4.6 billion years ago,” Barrett said.