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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.
Curiosity finds weird metallic meteorite on Mars
While taking its usual stroll on Mars, the Curiosity Rover found something unexpected: a dark, smooth meteorite.
Second largest meteorite in the world, a 30-tonne monster, unearthed in Argentina
This puppy must have made some damage.
AstroPicture of the Day: Moonless Meteors and the Milky Way
All APODs are spectacular in their own way - but every once in a while, there's one that's just amazing. ...
Have geologists discovered all the big craters on Earth?
Mars has over 250,000 craters created by asteroid impacts, the Moon has millions - too many to count. But the ...
Meteorites Not Responsible For Building Solar System, Study Finds
For decades, astronomers have believed that meteorites are the building blocks of our solar system - the lego blocks for ...
The Woman who was struck by a meteorite
The Sylacauga meteorite fell on November 30, 1954, at 14:46 local time (18:46 UT) in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga. ...
Skydiver nearly struck by meteor, catches it all on film
Anders Helstrup and several other members of Oslo Parachute Club were expecting a good time, and no major events when ...
Largest lunar impact ever recorded
A piece of rock traveling at at 61,000 km/h punched a crater 40 metres wide on the surface of the ...
145 million year old body of seawater found under Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay is one of the few oceanic impact craters on Earth When the huge impact took place ~35 million ...
Meteoroid that caused massive damage in Russia fully described
At the beginning of the year the most powerful meteoroid strike since the infamous Tunguska event took place in Russia, ...
Tunguska event was caused by meteor strike, rock sample analysis finds
You may have heard about the Tunguska event - a huge blast of energy which occurred in 1908 over Russia and flattened ...
Ancient Egyptians had alien jewelry
This ancient Egyptian trinket may not look like much, but it hides a very interesting story. Researchers have found that ...
Meteor crash on the moon causes biggest explosion since monitoring
In March, a medium sized meteorite slammed into the moon's surface causing the greatest explosion observed thus far, ever since ...
Early asteroids in our solar system may have been giant mudballs, not rocks
There are millions of asteroids in our solar system. Be them the size of France or a small bus, these ...
Extraterrestrial life found in meteorites? Uhm, probably not
Ok, so big news on the horizon: alien life forms have been found in a meteorite that recently crashed in ...
Seas of molten and solidified rock on the Moon can be mistaken for pristine rocks
A new analysis of data from NASA's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) shows that molten rock created by lunar impacts ...
Origin of meteorite that shook Russia traced using amateur footage
Most of us likely own a phone that has more computing power than that available for the entire Apollo mission ...
NASA radar observation shows asteroid 2012 DA14 flyby [VIDEO]
I realize we're maybe bugging some of you with these constant asteroid/meteor pieces here on ZME Science, but for what's ...
A map of every meteor strike since 2300 BC
The recent historical flyby of 2012 D14 - the largest asteroid ever to pass this close to Earth in recorded ...
New mineral discovered in 4.5 billion year-old meteorite
Using 21st century nanotechnology, researchers have discovered a new mineral in samples from a meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969. ...
Asteroid to make close fly-by on Feb 15, no reason to worry
Close, but not too close - an asteroid like that can crash on our planet every 1200 years, but there's ...
Asteroid Vesta is a lot like Earth, study shows
The cold, lifeless Vesta asteroid might be a lot more like our planet than astronomers believed - having a very ...
Apophis meteorite will buzz nearby Earth tonight – no reason to worry
The Apophis meteorite was named after an Egyptian demon of destruction, and for good reason - every now and then, ...
Vesta covered in carbon by gentle asteroids
Vesta is "peppered" with carbon materials which researchers believe were left behind by asteroids gently striking its surface. Vesta is ...
The only statue carved from a meteorite: Buddhist ‘Iron man’ is from outer space
A Buddhist statue brought to Germany by a Nazi expedition to Tibet has been proven to be of extraterrestrial origin. ...
Biggest moon rock auctioned so far set to fetch $380,000
This four pound geological marvel, captioned above, is what's commonly reffered to as a lunar meteorite. And like all things ...
Massive meteorite crater found in Canada, after oldest and biggest one was found in Greenland
Researchers have found evidence that the crater in case was formed when the ground was slammed by a massive meteorite, ...
Organic carbon might have originated on Mars
A new study conducted by NASA indicates that large molecules containing carbon came to Earth from Mars - molecules which ...
Mars rock fell in Africa last July
Well if we can't go to Mars, it seems Mars is coming to us... at least some chunks of it. ...
Shorties: Stunning pictures of Fukang Pallasite
Photo by Captmondo. You're probably wondering what a Pallasite is; well Pallasites are is a type of iron meteorite, quite ...
