On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, a rock smashed through the back windshield of an SUV parked in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident's ice cream, university officials ...

One of the oldest known remnants of the pre-Earth solar system, this meteorite played a pivotal role in confirming the presence of carbon molecules elsewhere in the universe. Explore this timeline ...

Charcoal and graphite are also allotropes of carbon. However, there’s another allotrope—first identified in 1967 when scientists examining a meteorite in Canyon Diablo, Arizona—known today ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

But under the right circumstances, carbon can arrange itself hexagonally, forming a hardier material known as lonsdaleite. We know about the existence of lonsdaleite thanks to a meteorite impact ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Brown University scientists are receiving some sweet recognition after positively identifying a meteorite that shattered a car window and landed in a carton of ice ...