Researchers have discovered tiny, never-before-seen carbon crystals in meteorite dust left over from the explosion of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013. Skip to main content.

Unlike crystals, which form when molten liquid (like lava) cools, tektites are created when the impact from a meteorite fuses with minerals in the ground. Science aside, this little space-y rock ...

800,000 years ago, a huge meteorite hit Earth. Scientists may have just found where. The missing crater formed in a catastrophic collision that may have scattered debris from China to Antarctica.

Moldavite, which is actually not a crystal but instead a tektite formed from a meteorite impact that hit occurred about 15 million years ago, has been responsible (people claim) for lost jobs ...

Nor can tektites be meteorites that moved on orbits in the solar system, says Kohman. The fragments of single stony meteorites could not cover large areas of the earth’s surface, ...

Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed 4.45 billion years ago. The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, ...

The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday at JMU and includes everything from primitive chondrites to rare tektites.

“Moldavite is actually a green tektite that was formed by a meteorite hitting Earth 14.7 million years ago in where is now southern Germany,” Mariah K. Lyons, a crystal expert and author of ...

Collectibles A 275-Pound Crystal-Filled Meteorite and Other Rare Natural Artifacts Head to Auction. The themed sale at Heritage Auctions speaks to a growing collecting appetite for ancient treasures.

For his PhD, Howard was studying the glass beads and tektites found near the Darwin crater in Tasmania. The 1.2 km wide crater was created by a meteorite impact about 800,000 years ago.

Rare diamonds found in meteorites called ureilites have a folded hexagonal structure. ... The crystals Salek and Tomkins found, however, are just about 2 percent of the size of a human hair.