In a new study, my colleagues and I analyzed lumps of glass found around a 5,000-year-old meteorite impact site in the Northern Territory and discovered it contains a surprisingly large amount of ...

A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has ... he noticed the chalky mark of what we now know to be a meteorite impact on his front walkway. "The shocking thing for ...

Chicxulub ejecta (microtektites, impact-melt glass) is found at the site within the event deposit ... occurred at the end of the Cretaceous Period and was among the largest asteroid impacts in effect ...

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact ... of meteorite impacts are known to alter minerals within rocks, sometimes transforming them into translucent glass.