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 ...

The crystal healing side of WitchTok has a new favorite rock: Moldavite, a moss-green meteor tektite that can supposedly throw your life into chaos. We say “supposedly,” because crystal magic ...

Soccer-ball sized meteorite thought to be more than four BILLION years old is returned to its rightful owners five years after being snatched from a 'crystal cave' ...

Researchers using a diamond paste to polish a slice of meteorite stumbled onto something remarkable: crystals in the rock that are harder than diamonds.

Scientists say these hibonite crystals found in meteorites were some of the earliest minerals to form in our solar system and are older than the Earth. Andy Davis, University of Chicago.

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.

One of the largest known meteorites to hit Earth struck nearly 800,000 years ago, ... Tektites between 750,000 to 35.5 million years old have been found across the planet in areas called strewn ...

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, was blasted into space ...

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

These crystals got incorporated into space rocks that eventually fell to Earth as meteorites for scientists like Heck, Kööp, and Davis to study. A tiny hibonite crystal from the Murchison meteorite.

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.