One billion years ago, a meteorite struck northwest Scotland, hitting the region 200 million years later than previously thought. The impact aligns with some of the earliest known land-based ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into space." What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other?

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

New geological findings from Scotland have upended previous assumptions about the planet’s ancient past, and hint that a colossal meteorite impact may have played a surprising role in life’s ...

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...