According to a statement by the researchers, the Winchcombe meteorite is an unusually well-preserved example of a group of space rocks called CM carbonaceous chondrites. Apparently, these formed ...

With the help of some family members Herd documented the meteorite fragments, measured a 2 x 2 cm divot in the walkway formed by the meteorite’s impact, and recovered a subset of the fragments ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Scientists think they may have come from space. For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the possibility that they were Earth-based contamination.

(WJAR) — A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident’s ice cream container, university officials said. According to university officials, a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Brown University scientists are receiving some sweet recognition after positively identifying a meteorite that shattered a car window and landed in a carton of ice ...