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They may not look like much, but CI chondrites – small fragile meteorites as shown here – are thought to be our best compositional equivalents of the bulk material of our solar system.

Earth formed much faster than previously thought

Geology Page - February 21, 2020

An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

Murchison meteorite

Sugar delivered to Earth from space

An orthophoto of Wolfe Creek Crater. An orthophoto is an aerial photograph that has been geometrically corrected so that the scale is uniform and the photo has the same lack of distortion as a map. Credit: University of Wollongong

New study reveals secrets of Wolfe Creek Crater

Maps of the Siljan impact structure and study locations. a Map of Sweden with the Siljan area indicated. b Geological map of the Siljan impact structure with locations of the cored boreholes and the quarry sampled for mineral coatings indicated, along with the sedimentary units in the crater depression, towns, lakes (white) and roads (black lines). Gas compositions exist from boreholes VM2 and VM5 (located adjacent to VM2). Credit: Nature Communications, 2019

Europe’s largest meteorite crater home to deep ancient life

The Wedderburn meteorite. (Museums Victoria/CC BY 4.0)

Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral Never Before Seen in...

Geology Page - September 5, 2019

The 21 shocked and unshocked zircon crystals dated in this study were separated from this ~30 cubic centimeters of unconsolidated late Eocene sediment obtained from Ocean Drilling Project site 1073, hole A. Credit: Biren/ASU

Researchers study largest impact crater in the US, buried for 35...

Geology Page - August 14, 2019

An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible

Geology Page - August 14, 2019

Researchers searching for fossils kept finding tiny glassy spheres inside ancient clams. After more than a decade, testing suggests they are evidence of one or more undocumented meteorite impacts in Florida’s distant past. Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace

Cosmic pearls: Fossil clams in Florida contain evidence of ancient meteorite

Geology Page - July 22, 2019

laminar beds of sandstone

Site of biggest ever meteorite collision in the UK discovered

Geology Page - June 10, 2019

The L6 ordinary chondrite El Médano 128, a 556 g meteorite recovered in the Atacama Desert. Photo courtesy CCJ-CNRS, P. Groscaux.

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest...

Geology Page - May 24, 2019

Close-up of the meteorite fragment showing the fusion crust.

Detective mission to characterise and trace the history of a new...

Geology Page - November 27, 2018

66 million years ago a meteorite of a diameter 14 km wide struck the Earth with an enormous speed of 20.000 kilometers per hour drilling itself 20 km into the Earth's crust

The formation of large meteorite craters is unraveled

Geology Page - October 29, 2018

Oldest rock on Earth

Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks

Geology Page - August 17, 2018

The oldest known zircon from Mars.

Meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ expands window for when life might have existed...

Geology Page - June 30, 2018

Meteorite sample

Meteorite diamonds tell of a lost planet

Geology Page - April 20, 2018

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Water appeared while Earth was still growing

Geology Page - April 9, 2018

A blue crystal recovered from a meteorite that fell near Morocco in 1998.

Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth

Geology Page - January 10, 2018

Thin section view of meteoritic ejecta deposit si

60 Million Year Old Meteorite Strike in Scotland

Geology Page - December 14, 2017

This is a reflected light image of a metal-sulphide clast in the enstatite chondrite ALH 77295

Meteorite analysis shows reduced salt is key in Earth’s new recipe

Geology Page - December 6, 2017

Meteorites may have brought building blocks of life to Earth

Geology Page - October 3, 2017

Large meteorite impacts drove plate-tectonic processes on the early Earth

Geology Page - September 26, 2017

High-pressure experiments solve meteorite mystery

Geology Page - June 8, 2017

‘Tiny clocks’ crystallize understanding of meteorite crashes

Geology Page - May 27, 2017

Ancient meteorite impact sparked long-lived volcanic eruptions on Earth

Geology Page - May 3, 2017

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Scientists use the deep-diving robot Jason to collect water samples from oceanic crust at a subseafloor observatory off the coast of Washington. A recent study found that a group of unusual microbes living below the seafloor provides clues to the evolution of life on Earth, and potentially other planets. Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, courtesy of University of California, Santa Cruz, US National Science Foundation, ROV Jason dive J2-711, 2013, AT26-03 cruise chief scientist Andrew Fisher

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