Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The icy plains of Antarctica are a magnet for meteorite hunters such as Maria Valdes, a research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in The ...

How can meteorite sample methods be improved to reduce contamination? This is what a recent study published in Applied Geochemistry hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

Universe Today has explored the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology, solar physics, comets, planetary atmospheres, planetary geophysics, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First meteoroid impact detected by NASA’s InSight mission; the image was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its ...

Geologist Birger Schmitz doesn’t just look for ordinary rocks. The Lund University professor trots the globe in search of millions or billions of year-old dust from space. His travels have recently ...

As Jack Murphy collects information on meteorites, he also collects tidbits about the history and people of Colorado. Murphy, curator of geology at the Denver Museum of Natural History, delights in ...

As Earth warms, about 5,000 meteorites could disappear from the surface of melting ice sheets every year, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. To date, more ...

(CNN) — The icy plains of Antarctica are a magnet for meteorite hunters such as Maria Valdes, a research scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago. Some 1,000 ...