Tagged: meteorite

Bright “shooting stars” from a new meteor shower lit up the night sky in a dazzling display overnight Monday and Tuesday, even if it wasn’t a “meteor storm” some stargazers hoped for. The new meteor shower peaked around midnight Tuesday (May 31) as remnants from...

The meteorite sizzled rocks some 36 million years ago. It’s confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth’s crust really was super-hot. The rock, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and first reported in 2017, when scientists wrote that it had...

The meteorite sizzled rocks some 36 million years ago. It’s confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth’s crust really was super-hot. The rock, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and first reported in 2017, when scientists wrote that it had...

A crumbling hunk of rock found in a field in England is a rare meteorite from the earliest days of the solar system, dating back about 4.6 billion years. The meteorite was found in Gloucestershire in March by Derek Robson, a resident of Loughborough, England,...

Planetary scientists estimate that each year, about 500 meteorites survive the fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere and fall to our planet’s surface. Most are quite small, and less than 2% of them are ever recovered. While the majority of rocks from space may not be...

Scientists are set to uncover the secrets of a rare meteorite and possibly the origins of oceans and life on Earth, thanks to Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) funding. Research carried out on the meteorite, which fell in the UK earlier this year, suggests...

Scientists have discovered a new type of star dust whose composition indicates that it formed during a rare form of nucleosynthesis (the process through which new atomic nuclei are created) and could shed new light on the history of water on Earth. A team led...

In 2011, scientists confirmed a suspicion: There was a split in the local cosmos. Samples of the solar wind brought back to Earth by the Genesis mission definitively determined oxygen isotopes in the sun differ from those found on Earth, the moon and the other...

Scientists in the U.K. announced March 9, 2021, that they’ve made a rare recovery of a meteorite that fell to Earth just a few days ago. The discovery stemmed from the widespread sighting – on February 28 – of a fireball, a very bright meteor...

Scientists speculate the rock could be a meteorite or a far-flung chunk of Mars. Mars is a haven for meteorites, and it’s always notable when a rover comes across one of these emissaries from space. Scientists are currently scrutinizing a rock full of holes spotted...