, July 19 -- Scientists have identified the rare type of meteorite that is believed to have struck Earth 66 million years ago, triggering the mass extinction that wiped out about 75 percent of all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A thin slice of the NWA 12774 meteorite. The colors arise from various minerals responding to the slice’s illumination by ...

In a stunning auction, a lunar meteorite known as 'The Moon Puzzle,' consisting of six reassembled fragments, fetched an ...

More and more fragments of the Twannberg meteorite are being found in the Bernese Jura; over 2,200 pieces are known, and the ...

Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a handful are known as angrites—and at least one of them might be the remnant of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home contains rare evidence of ancient salty water and organic molecules tied to life's ...

Though the asteroid impactor struck Earth and likely spelled the end of the Age of Dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, researchers are still uncovering more about it. Researchers from the University ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world, possibly as big as the moon or even Mars, orbited our sun before crashing into another celestial body and shattering into rubble. Now, in a paper ...

A meteorite found in the Sahara is forcing scientists to rethink what kinds of worlds once circled the young sun. The rock, called Northwest Africa 12774, belongs to a rare class of meteorites known ...

A loud crack shook a quiet New Jersey home on a summer afternoon. Dust drifted through a bedroom. Black fragments scattered across a bed. What fell from the sky that day was not just debris. It was a ...