NASA scientists analyzing the dust of meteorites have discovered new clues to a long-standing mystery about how life works on its most basic, molecular level.

Two rare meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient asteroid with an outer layer or crust similar in composition to the crust of Earth's continents, reports a research team primarily composed of geochemists from the University of Maryland.

Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space, and scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts.

Edmonton—Meteorite craters might not be as rare as we think. A University of Alberta researcher has found a tool that could reveal possibly hundreds of undiscovered craters across Canada and around the world.

Flash back three or four billion years — Earth is a hot, dry and lifeless place. All is still. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent collision may have planted the chemical seeds of life on Earth.

The discovery of a meteorite crater in Western Australia's Pilbara has sparked a huge search on the internet for similar geographical features.

Amino acids that are the building blocks of life have been found in their highest ever concentration in two ancient meteorites which crashed to Earth millions of years ago, scientists claim today.

wn University professor Peter Schultz’s study of the Peruvian meteorite has yielded some interesting conclusions that could upend the conventional wisdom about the size and type of meteorites that can strike Earth.

Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, have captured rare video of a meteor falling to Earth.

More than a 150 people have reported suffering headaches and nausea after a suspected meteorite landed in a remote part of Peru. The object left a hole 20 meters wide and seven meters deep in the ground in the Puno region, near the town of Carancas.

A mystery object, believed to be a meteorite, fell to earth on Saturday in the Peruvian region of Puno (Peru), causing vomiting and nausea, report local media Tuesday.

Peru's Andina News Agency reported today that Puno's Regional Health Directorate sent a group of specialists to the Carancas community in the province of Chucuito near Bolivia to take samples of a meteorite that supposedly landed in the area in Peru known as Peruvian Meteorite.