Public fascination with impact craters often drives bold speculations, but rigorous verification is critical. In southeastern Bavaria, numerous depressions have been proposed to represent impact crat...

Quando uma rocha espacial entra na atmosfera terrestre em alta velocidade, o espetáculo luminoso que vemos no céu é apenas uma pequena parte de uma transformação muito mais complexa. Um novo estudo acompanhou 75 quedas de meteoritos registradas por câmeras e identificou sete fases que descrevem o que acontece desde o início da passagem atmosférica até os fragmentos finalmente alcançarem o solo. Os resultados, publicados na revista Meteoritics & Planetary Science, indicam que a perda de massa dessas rochas é controlada principalmente por dois processos: o derretimento de sua superfície e a fragmentação durante a descida.

A fireball camera system installed in 2022 by the Oman Meteorite Monitoring Project (OMMP) as part of the Global Fireball Observatory (GFO) recorded a 3.2 s fireball on March 8, 2022 at 8:15 p.m. UTC...

With a size of 51.2 × 7.2 km, the 10.9 ± 1.7 ka old Jiddat al Harasis 091 L5 chondrite strewn field is the largest known in Oman. It consists of more than 700 meteorites with a total mass of >4.5 ton....

This article explores how the celebrated mining city of Zacatecas contributed to the history of astronomy through keen awareness of mineralogy. Two local meteorites shaped discussions of meteoritics a...

The “Weltmuseum Wien” owns a large collection of kris daggers from Indonesia. These objects are famous for their metal blades consisting of numerous layers made by a complicated forging process invol....

A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors succumb to the corrosive acid rain.

What if Dante’s Inferno wasn’t just poetry? New research suggests the 14th-century epic may have quietly mapped the mechanics of a planetary impact, centuries before modern meteoritics existed.

The presence of microorganisms within meteorites has been used as evidence for extraterrestrial life, however, the potential for terrestrial contamination makes their interpretation highly controvers...