A meteorite impact in Scotland happened 990 million years ago, not 1.2 billion as previously thought, possibly influencing ...

Pune: A meteorite that crashed through the roof of Kiran Babanrao Thakre's house at Kopargaon village in Ahilyanagar district ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has ...

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

"While the impact crater itself has yet to be found, this study has collected further clues that could finally reveal its ...

The last time I wrote an article here, it was to talk about Afar Region volcanoes, and I promised more to come. This is still a project that I have in mind, but that will have to wait a little ...

OF the many craters on the Earth known to have been produced by fallen meteors, a few have left no signs of the meteor which caused them, apart from the huge holes created in the Earth's crust.

In a scientific breakthrough that could reshape our understanding of planetary impacts on Earth, a team of researchers from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has identified a rare ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

while stony meteorites may exhibit craters that are smooth like their meteoritic surface. Meteorites have several physical properties that help distinguish them from terrestrial rocks. They’re usually ...