The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

"We can identify meteorites by studying what minerals are present in them and the relationships between these minerals inside ...

But Harvard researchers found that something much more unlikely happened when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet. Instead of ending life, the space rock may have allowed it to ...

Researchers were also able to identify the origin of yet more. Taken together, it means that researchers know where more than 90 per cent of meteorites originated. And it also means that ...

Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet. One such space rock crashed down about 3.26 billion years ago ...

But Earth was young and a very different place when the S2 meteorite, estimated to have 50 to 200 times more mass than the dinosaur extinction-triggering Chicxulub asteroid, collided with the ...

Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin ...