We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

The Martian meteorite set to go on public display at Expo 2025 Osaka is seen in its extensive packaging as it is loaded onto a truck in Tachikawa, Tokyo, on March 26, 2025. (Mainichi/Shu Furukawa ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over one big question: where do meteorites come from? These rocky visitors crash into Earth from space, but tracing their paths back to specific locations in the ...

When a mysterious meteorite fell in Algeria in 2023, scientists didn't know that it was a special rock. Earth is battered by several meteorites every year. Most of them are remnants of a celestial ...

By tracking the paths of falling meteorites, astronomers can now trace where many of these space rocks originally came from. “This has been like solving a decade-long mystery,” said Peter ...