The meteorite’s composition is approximately 91% iron, 7.62% nickel, with traces of cobalt and phosphorus. This composition has helped scientists determine its origin and classification within the ...

A new study suggests a massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, far larger than the dinosaur killer, may have acted as a "giant fertilizer bomb" on early Earth. This impact, releasing ...

Without meteorites, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. As writer Maria Golia explains in her new book, Meteorite: Nature And Culture, meteorite bombardments during Earth’s infancy may have ...

Two fragments of a four-billion-year-old meteorite have been recovered from a remote salt lake, just days after a fireball blazed across the night sky. Researchers from Curtin University ...

In February 2013, the sonic boom from a massive meteorite damaged buildings and injured more than a thousand people near the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. (See pictures: "Meteorite Hits Russia.") ...

Researchers from Curtin University, part of the Desert Fireball Network, traced the meteorite’s dramatic descent to Lake Hope, a barren expanse roughly seven hours east of Perth, using hi-tech ...

A team of meteorite hunters has gone deep into the WA outback to search for remnants of the spectacle that lit up Perth skies on Mother’s Day. Australia on alert after fatal Air India crash ...

Country police officer and amateur meteorite hunter Marcus Scott found a tennis ball sized piece of the space rock, dubbed the Mother's Day meteorite, in a salt lake about 460 kilometres east of ...

A massive meteorite that slammed into the planet 3.26 billion years ago may have done just that, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Spearheaded ...

In an email shared with employees late last month, Vail Resorts noted several planned changes to its business that included internally categorizing its mountains by “experience” rather than geography, ...