But some really are extra remarkable – such as the Imilac meteorite, which, at over 4.5 billion years old, dates back almost to the very beginning of our Solar System. “It is a slice from one ...

Thanks to new measurements of very old meteorites, the current consensus on the Solar System's age is 4.5684 billion years ...

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Meteorites, among other scientifically important materials that came from outer space space. or from deep within the earth. At 4.5 billion years old, meteorites are among the oldest and rarest ...

Geologists have found evidence of a 60 million-year-old meteorite impact on the Isle of Skye. They made the discovery while exploring volcanic rocks on the island, including at a site just south ...

Scientists think they may have come from space. For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the possibility that they were Earth-based contamination.

Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Natural History Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system. On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a ...