Most of the frozen water has vanished because glaciers have been flowing faster into the ocean, rather than because of surface melting of ice sheets, according to a new study. Researchers estimate the...

ESA partnered with LEGO to make 3D-printed 'space bricks' that inspire next-gen space engineers.

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.

Chicxulub Impact Event

The Hoba meteorite smashed into the Earth, but look around it, and you won't see any crater.

In the year 2,000, a Chinese dealer purchased an unusual-looking rock weighing around a ton. He cleaned it off, removing 20 kilograms (44 lb) from it, and

The same Martian rock transforms into four different things before scientists can even study it.

The world's greatest meteorite collection exists not because Antarctica attracts space rocks, but because the continent's ice and wind are nature's most efficient sorting machines.

I never imagined that the Vatican would have an observatory and meteorite collection. In 1543, Polish astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, wrote “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres” about the Helio...

Bronze Age rulers may have turned fallen space metal into symbols of power.

The l'Aigle meteorite fall involved more than 3,000 pieces of rock and numerous witnesses, and it changed everything

One of the oldest objects anywhere on Earth is on display in our Touchable Mineral aisle. At about 4.5 billion years old, the Nantan meteorite is as ancient as the Earth itself.

The Algerian meteorite fills a 1.8-billion-year void in Mars's geological record, offering the first window into a mysterious period when the Red Planet may have undergone dramatic internal changes.

by Alain Carion The tektites of Ivory Coast are without a doubt the rarest of the tektites in any collections. They have been found while searching for gold, particularly in gold placers, but local sh...

Geologists suggest the catastrophic impact of "S2" delivered key nutrients to the oceans, prompting microorganisms to thrive

Chondritic meteorites may be the shattered remains of escaped 'mini-moons' formed in the collisions that built the planets

The mysteries of the cosmos are vast, with astronomers and scientists pursuing answers through iron meteorites and other clues.

Scientists with Western University's Meteor Physics Group have verified that the fragments recently recovered from Cockburn Island in northern Ontario are meteorites from June 19 fireball event.

Meteorites are fragments of rock or metal that fall to Earth from space. They are very rare, but many people find unusual rocks or pieces of metal and wonder if they might have found a meteorite. The ...

Scientists confirmed the astronomer’s suspicions with an expedition to the site in Quebec. The discovery offers a rare case of a reported new crater turning out to be real

An international team of Earth scientists has narrowed down the class of impactor that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. According to their findings, it was a rare type of rock that or...

Roughly 99.999 percent of Earth's gold and platinum sank into the core during the magma ocean phase 4.5 billion years ago. The gold humans mine today was delivered later — in a rain of asteroids calle...

The glass is small enough to sit in a museum drawer, but the event it points to was not small. A set of unusual Australian tektites, now called ananguites,

Meteorites are fragments of debris from the asteroid belt that penetrate Earth's atmosphere and reach its surface.

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter – Volume 48 No. 2 November 2025

Meteor Crater is one of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet. For years, visitors have wanted access to the bottom. Now for the first time ever, the narrow trail that leads to the bottom of...

The American Meteor Society, Ltd. is established to inform, encourage, and support the research activities of people who are interested in the field of Meteor Astronomy

Sought after by collectors and scientists for rarity, meteorites hold a key to revealing the unimaginably distant past of the Solar System.

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from...

The study of the origin of life on Earth has been broadened due to panspermia models that suggest that early life may have been transferred between planets.

Cracking open a meteorite that landed on Earth from Mars has yielded an unexpected treasure.

An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, discovered the mineral garnet in a Martian sample. The breakthrough offers...

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our solar system

Curtin University research reveals an ancient impact in Western Australia's Goldfields that redistributed local gold.

Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

MARSHFIELD, MASS. (WHDH) - A five-foot in diameter meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 42,000 miles-per-hour Saturday, producing a meteorite that fell into Cape Cod<a class="excerpt-rea...

A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors succumb to the corrosive acid rain.

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometer-sized chunks known as planetesim...