These rare rocks come in a few different types, which can tell geologists about Mars’ volcanic past and hint at its potential habitability.
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Scientists don’t often have the time to get all their equipment set up to study incoming meteors from space. Instead, they can study capsules from space missions as ‘artificial meteors.’
When rocks from space fall towards Earth, they usually don’t do any damage – here’s why.
The origin of life on Earth is one of the biggest mysteries in science.
A zap with a laser in the lab confirmed the extraterrestrial origins of enigmatic lumps of glass found in the Northern Territory.
George Lucas named Luke Skywalker’s home planet after a Tunisian town and meteorite.
Libyan desert glass originated from the impact of a meteorite on the Earth’s surface.
Some space rocks you can get for free – if you know how to identify them. Rarer materials cost more, and the asteroid sample NASA just brought back has a high price tag.
Meteorites are usually discovered by someone who notices an unusual rock while out walking.
A new study of the meteorite Erg Chech 002 makes it one of the most precisely dated space objects and changes our understanding of how elements were spread around the cloud of dust that formed the Sun and planets.
A mysterious hunk of space junk buzzed through Australian skies last night. It may have been the third stage of a Soyuz 2 rocket just launched by Russia.
Barely a week goes by without headlines about a giant asteroid coming past Earth. Here’s what really makes an asteroid pass notable – it’s not just size.
There is a very large scientific leap from observing a fireball to claiming it as an alien spaceship.
Temperatures plummeted across southeast Australia this week, with Canberra experiencing its lowest temperature since 2018 and the lowest for June since 1986. What’s going on?
Studying impact craters can broaden our understanding of the Earth’s evolution and life, as well as its possible future.
The 2.29 billion-year-old crater in Western Australia offers clues about what massive space rock impacts meant for the early Earth.
In 2021, searchers recovered a meteorite that fell over the UK just hours earlier. Scientists have now reconstructed its story.
It’s time to get more Ghanaians interested in this fascinating, important aspect of science.
From space to the outback, meteorite-tracking tools are building the knowledge we need to prepare for a future asteroid impact.
Within hours of its landing, samples of the Winchcombe meteorite had been recovered and its origins tracked back beyond Mars to the asteroid belt.
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Geologist, Monash University
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute; The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Post Doctoral Researcher in Achondrite Meteorites, The Open University
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Professor, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Planetary Sciences, NASA
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Senior lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Lecturer in Planetary Science, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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PhD Candidate in Astronomy, University of Southern Queensland