We're used to a lot of different natural things falling out of the sky. These can include snow, rain, and sometimes even frogs (yes, really). All of these relate to weather phenomena. Far more exotic ...

How can meteorite sample methods be improved to reduce contamination? This is what a recent study published in Applied Geochemistry hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home in 2024 could help scientists understand the history of our solar ...

A team of international researchers has uncovered new evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, long known for causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, also created an underground environment that ...

What happens to a space rock as it falls through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite? By studying 75 meteorite falls captured on video and in photographs, researchers identified seven distinct ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of scientists from various institutions including the Universities Space Research Association have determined that a newly discovered martian meteorite ...

Analysis of tiny zircon crystals buried within the 10-mile-wide Ames crater in northwest Oklahoma suggests that the submerged ...

Detecting water where none remains today: Neutron and X-ray tomography make it possible. In an international study conducted with the participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have ...

An SwRI-led study modeled the concentration, assembly and preservation of millimeter-sized, spherical mineral grains known as chondrules, shown here in polarized light, within the parent bodies of the ...