A tiny glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering scientists a glimpse into the moon's hidden depths ...

An international study featuring scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Space Science ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study of the remnants of a 3.26 billion-year-old impact reveals that ...

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

The scientists used tiny zircon crystals in rocks as geological "time capsules" to date the meteorite impact. The research has been published in the journal Geology. Prof Chris Kirkland ...

The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico would have placed the Deccan Traps in ...

The paper, "A one-billion-year-old Scottish meteorite impact," has been published in Geology. Previously believed to have occurred 1.2 billion years ago, the impact created the Stac Fada Member ...