Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

When scientists found one such meteorite embedded in the thick ice of Antarctica, they unlocked a time capsule carrying ...

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan houses 17,400 meteorites.

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a ...

Antarctica, Earth's southernmost continent, is a place of extremes. Over 99% of Antarctica is covered in ice, which is up to 4.9 km thick inland, and extends over the sea in the form of ice shelves ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

Meteoritics is the study of meteorites — solid parts of asteroids or comets that have landed on another celestial body, notably (but not limited to) the Earth. Measuring the composition of ...

On Sunday, March 7, 2021, I arrived on the cold and blustery summit of Mount Blue in Weld, Maine. I climbed the rime ice-covered steps of the summit observation platform just in time to watch the view ...