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Tag: meteorite
The oldest meteorite ever found is older than the Earth itself
It's so ancient it could help us understand the building blocks of planets.
Meteorites might have helped create life on Earth (and beyond)
They killed the dinosaurs but might have also kicked off life as we know it.
Massive 800-million-year-old asteroid shower on Earth left dozens of huge craters on the moon
Any sign of this ancient onslaught has been erased from the surface of Earth, but the moon still has the ...
Mineral never before seen in nature is discovered in a meteorite from 1951
A rare form of an iron-carbide mineral was found by researchers
Some Martian clouds are made of ground-up meteors
That's pretty metal.
The oldest known meteorite in the UK struck about 1.2 billion years ago
It's one of the oldest meteorite impacts ever discovered.
Japan start-up planning to sell “shooting stars on demand” launched their first satellite
No word on how much one of these shows will cost just yet.
What’s the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite?
The meteorite only lives as it is falling.
Scientists find huge 19-mile impact crater under Greenland’s ice sheet
A meteorite might have slammed into the island as early as 12,000 years ago.
Unique 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite is a remnant of the early solar system
It's older than Earth itself!
Most objects in the asteroid belt come from a handful of wrecked ancient planets
Asteroids have families too.
Life bounced back quickly at the famed dinosaur-ending asteroid impact site
We don't know much about how life bounces back after such a dramatic event.
A Martian puzzle: is this a supervolcano or an impact crater?
New images may be posing more questions than they answer.
NASA is taking a Martian meteorite back home — for calibration purposes
The meteorite will be used in NASA's ambitious Mars 2020 mission.
Find a 2.2-pound-chunk of the Michigan meteorite and you can win $20,000
It's raining money. Incandescent, rocky money.
Meteorites carrying both water and organic compounds point to an ocean world “seeding life” in the universe
Why spread your seed across the Earth when you can spread it across space?
Strange interstellar stone discovered in Egypt is like nothing else found in the solar system
A unique cosmic stone challenges what we know about how the solar system formed.
A bright green meteor lit up the US’ skies on Monday, and security cameras picked it up
They're the modern watchers on the wall.