That’s going to leave a dent.

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath of meteorite ...

The study of Martian geology and meteorites has transformed our understanding of the Red Planet’s evolution and its geodynamic processes. Recent investigations have revealed a complex interior ...

A meteorite that recently gave one Georgia resident quite a shock when it crashed through his roof spent an awful long time making a cosmic journey that ended in a living room. Multiple fragments of ...

Space-based experiments show fungi can efficiently extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity, advancing prospects for asteroid biomining and sustainable resource use. As humans look ...

Some of the small glass blobs originating with a mysterious ancient impact. (Crósta et al., Geology, 2025) Hundreds of glass ...

CAIRO (Jared Collins/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Researchers have discovered two meteorites in the Sahara Desert that they believe may have originated from Mercury. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

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University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...