Tektites are natural glass formed from terrestrial debris falling back to Earth after a meteorite impact. Based on their distribution and chemical composition, researchers mapped out four large strewn ...

The Earth is subjected to constant change regardless of time or location. For generations, we have been studying the planet we live on to better understand how it came to be what it is today. But when ...

A new study reveals a previously unknown meteorite impact that took place in northeastern Brazil some 6.3 million years ago. An international team of scientists found a 900-kilometer-long "strewn ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this bygone cataclysm consist of tektites—a type of natural glass that forms ...

A collection of meteorites has been added to James Madison University’s Mineral Museum. The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday and includes everything from primitive ...

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A meteorite, as a substance, is solid extraterrestrial material that has survived passage through Earth’s atmosphere and reached the surface, typically classified into stony (chondrites and ...