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Site of biggest ever meteorite collision in the UK discovered

June 10, 2019

The comet 46P/Wirtanen on January 3, 2019.

A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of...

May 31, 2019

New research focuses on filamentous microbes that make their living in hot springs and catalyze the formation of travertine rock.

‘Fettuccine’ may be most obvious sign of life on Mars, researchers...

May 31, 2019

The L6 ordinary chondrite El Médano 128, a 556 g meteorite recovered in the Atacama Desert. Photo courtesy CCJ-CNRS, P. Groscaux.

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest...

May 24, 2019

The retreat of Mars' polar cap of frozen carbon dioxide during the spring and summer generates winds that drive the largest movements of sand dunes observed on the red planet.

On Mars, sands shift to a different drum

May 24, 2019

Snapshots of numerical modeling of the moon’s formation by a giant impact. The central part of the image is a proto-Earth; red points indicate materials from the ocean of magma in a proto-Earth; blue points indicate the impactor materials.

Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup

May 2, 2019

InSight's seismometer was taken on the 110th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

NASA’s InSight detects first likely ‘quake’ on Mars

April 24, 2019

Mercury has a solid inner core

April 17, 2019

First Direct Images of a Black Hole

April 11, 2019

Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

April 3, 2019

$A model for the compositional evolution of the early Earth's crust due to fractional crystallization of impact melt sheets followed by detachment and sinking of their dense primitive portions towards the crust-mantle boundary. Credit: Rais Latypov$

Ancient asteroid impacts played a role in creation of Earth’s future...

February 2, 2019

Image depicts the change in impact rate modeled in this paper. Some of the craters used in the study on both the moon and Earth are highlighted in the background. Credit: Data from NASA GSFC / LRO / Arizona State University; Artwork by Rebecca Ghent

Scientists find increase in asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying...

January 18, 2019

Close-up of the meteorite fragment showing the fusion crust.

Detective mission to characterise and trace the history of a new...

November 27, 2018

Map of the bedrock topography beneath the ice sheet and the ice-free land surrounding the Hiawatha impact crater.

Huge Crater Discovered in Greenland

November 17, 2018

Naturally occurring ‘batteries’ fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars

November 1, 2018

66 million years ago a meteorite of a diameter 14 km wide struck the Earth with an enormous speed of 20.000 kilometers per hour drilling itself 20 km into the Earth's crust

The formation of large meteorite craters is unraveled

October 29, 2018

Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks

August 17, 2018

The central portion of Osuga Valles, which has a total length of 164 km.

Mars valleys traced back to precipitation

July 3, 2018

Meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ expands window for when life might have existed...

June 30, 2018

This is a temple in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, India,

Learning about the Himalayas using Mars technology

June 21, 2018

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NASA, Japan make ASTER earth data available at no cost

April 4, 2016

Desert-dwelling carnivorous dinosaur found in Brazil

June 28, 2019

Risk of asteroid hitting Earth higher than thought, study shows

April 23, 2014

Role of gravitational instabilities in volcanic ash deposition

February 4, 2015

Meganeura : The largest insect ever existed was a giant dragonfly

March 10, 2020

Scientist uses fossils to prove historic Ohio millstones have French origins

June 5, 2014

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