Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
Roving the red planet: New paper documents first Mars mission soil samples
A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...
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Marsquakes Are Moving Faster Than They Should and It’s Not Clear Why
Now, researchers have connected 49 seismic events to impact craters, proving that meteorite strikes leave distinct seismic ...
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A Californian collector bought a rock in Morocco in 2011 and more than a decade later it turns out to be a much more valuable material
More than 10 years ago, a black stone seemingly from Mars was discovered in the Sahara Desert. Scientists have now unraveled one of the best-kept secrets about this meteorite — Northwest Africa ...
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Earth's missing elements were lost in violent collisions during formation
New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...
Meteorite over South Island causes massive sonic boom
South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wānaka overnight with a loud sonic boom. The cause was a falling meteorite which became a fireball and raced above Queenstown around ...
NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...
An object left a big gash on Mars. It also spawned a quake.
The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...