Upheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists ...
A family woke up and found their car windshield with a hole in it, but their curious son soon cracked the mystery— it was a ...
The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 ...
A zircon crystal blasted off the face of Mars before landing on Earth as part of one of the most unusual meteorites ever found has revealed the oldest evidence of water on Mars. Moreover ...
Since 2011, retired computer programmer Carol Roullard has been taking photos of crystals and other objects under a microscope. The above image, which she tweeted earlier this month, is a photo of a ...
The source of the splotch was officially registered on Monday as the Charlottetown meteorite, named after the city on Prince Edward Island, in eastern Canada, where it landed. Only 69 meteorites ...
There are two different types of stony-iron meteorites: pallasite and mesosiderite. Pallasites contain big, beautiful olive-green crystals - a form of magnesium-iron silicate called olivine - embedded ...
An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...
But *** neighbor heard *** crash and questioned, was this *** meteorite? The homeowners wondered too when they saw their camera and sent photos to *** meteorite expert at the University of Alberta ...
A home security camera captured a falling meteorite and the sound it made when it hit the walkway leading to a house in Canada, the incident occurring just moments after the homeowner departed for ...