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Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.
A look at the top 10 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) prospects who have built the strongest cases to be drafted for the 2025 NFL Draft. The National Football League (NFL) pre ...
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 ...
Stony meteorites that don’t have chondrules are referred to as “achondrites” and are believed to be volcanic rocks formed from igneous activity within the parent bodies, where the melting and ...
Keen-eyed stargazers have spotted a meteor fly across Southern Queensland, creating a light show seen from Bundaberg right down to Lismore. The meteor sighting was part of the Lyrid Shower, an ...
Easter Sunday certainly hasn't been a day of rest for the astronomy community. All eyes are on NASA's asteroid-studying Lucy spacecraft, which should have had a close space rock encounter at 1:51 ...
Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...
Whereas a meteorite is a space rock that reaches the ground, a bolide is “just the luminous phenomenon” associated with the object’s atmospheric entry, said Jérôme Gattacceca, the editor ...
Meteorites that have made their way to the Earth's surface are small pieces of an asteroid. Some have been traced back to Mars and the moon.
Powerful X-ray scans of an enstatite chondrite meteorite revealed vast native hydrogen sulfide in its matrix, proving Earth’s building blocks carried water-making ingredients. This discovery flips ...
Based on the stone’s dark coloration and unusual shape, one possibility that was initially considered had been that Skull Hill might be a fragment from a meteorite that made its way to the Martian ...