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Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the red ...

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A fireball dubbed the Mother's Day Meteorite has been found in a salt lake in Western Australia by a country police officer ...

A network of Cold War-era infrasound sensors can help scientists reconstruct trajectories of falling space objects.

Hrvoje Tkalčić receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Weijia Sun works for Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He receives funding from National Key ...

One hypothesis has been that the missing water seeped into the crust. Mars was heavily bombarded by meteorites during the Noachian period, which may have formed fractures that channelled water ...

You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why meteorites that contain carbon appear less affected by such violent ...

When 3 meteorite pieces struck Khalwat Nimgaon, it upended village life and set off a frantic hunt for a missing fragment.