Scientists have found organics from Earth's swamp trapped inside of glass created by a meteor impact almost a million years ago. The tiny pockets, only micrometers across, contain material such as ...

A strange type of glass that was discovered in 1933 in the Libyan desert may come from a meteorite, an analysis shows, but impact crater is still missing. When you purchase through links on our ...

If the minerals inside the glass formed under those conditions, then there is a clear natural scenario: a meteorite impact. “Those are very tiny particles of mineral phases that only form at ...

Along with colleagues from universities and science centres in Germany, Egypt and Morocco, I have identified Libyan desert glass as originating from the impact of a meteorite on the Earth’s surface.

They also offer a window into meteorite impacts ... moon to determine which impact events might have thrown out the specific lunar glasses that they studied. These glass beads, obtained by Chang ...

which Sieh believes are the detritus of a land-stripping impact blast. The tektites, a type of natural glass formed when meteorites hit sandy surfaces, were found near the tops of these gravels ...

In the rock layers, the researchers could see spherules, which are tiny, glass-like orbs that form when silica-containing rock melts due to a meteorite impact. They also observed conglomerates ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study of the remnants of a 3.26 billion-year-old impact reveals that ...

The study also found that major impact events on Earth were not ... The heat and pressure of meteorite impacts created the glass beads and so their age distribution should mimic the impacts ...

Unlike other meteorites which have a thin crust of black glass from atmospheric heat ... tracked and then predicted to impact Earth’s atmosphere by NASA’s Scout and ESA’s Meerkat Asteroid Guard impact ...

Six manned missions and four robotic missions have so far brought back samples, including basalts and volcanic glass ... weak understanding of early meteorite impact processes.