"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into space." ...

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones on the ground in Costa Rica in the past 150 years." ...

S tep into the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Meteorites and you’ll be faced with a monster. It goes by the ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

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 discovery not only ...

A Japanese research team has concluded that an iron dagger made of meteorites found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was forged at temperatures of about 950 degrees or lower.

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Kurosawa says: “We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the highly shocked rock material (red) into space. Such explosions occur on carbon-rich meteorites (left ...