Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent ...

On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 at night. The space stone weighed nearly 326 pounds and ...

The emotions of youth become less all-important and less demanding of our attention. Young people feel that every perceived slight needs ...

A new study suggests a massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, far larger than the dinosaur killer, may have acted ...

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

It challenges conventional thought of the "fragile" carbonaceous chondrite class it belongs to. This meteorite has captured people's imaginations since it shot through Earth's atmosphere in April ...

The space rock, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, is an "ordinary" chondrite, a stony meteorite containing small mineral granules, with features that help explain why it broke apart as it hit ...

The meteorite, later named the Charlottetown Meteorite after being identified as an ordinary chondrite, traveled from the asteroid belt, striking narrowly outside a home. Historic: Doorbell camera ...

Scientists believe it’s the first time footage — including both audio and video — of a meteorite impact has been captured. This impact occurred on 25 July 2024 in Prince Edward Island, Canada, when a ...

Small fragments were tested at the University of Alberta and confirmed to be an ordinary chondrite meteorite. (Submitted by the University of Alberta) Fittingly, the sample has been named the ...

Inset: An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a "primitive," unmelted planetesimal (right). | Credit: Robert Lea (created with ...

Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and ...