Making money by helping scientists solve a mystery? Well, why not! A recent project has people searching for a meteorite that fell on our planet over Maine. The reward? Up to $25k! You can really say that this is a ...
A peculiar rocky meteoroid that exploded last year above Canada is more spectacular than it first appeared to be. More intriguing is that the cosmic feature originates from the outer Solar System, based on scientific research. By studying more data, ...
Meteorites represent leftovers of our Solar System’s formation, but only if at least some small parts of them reach the Earth’s surface. Space rocks that end up burning up completely in our atmosphere don’t qualify as meteorites; they are just ...
Curtin University is researching a chunk of a Martian meteorite found on Earth in the Moroccan Sahara Desert in 2011 and initially reported in 2013. According to experts from Australia’s Curtin University, scientists are one step closer to knowing when ...
Western specialists are investigating a meteorite that became popular after falling into a woman’s bedroom in British Columbia. The meteorite piece traveled for hundreds of millions of years before landing on the planet. According to Western experts, a meteorite that ...
A new method of analyzing planetary atmospheres reveals data about the initial composition of the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. Researchers from the UC Santa Cruz released a paper recently discussing the technique, process, and findings. The ancient atmospheres of rocky ...
A recent discovery of a meteorite rock found in the desert sands of Algeria intrigues researchers. Apparently, the lost piece could be a part of a baby planet that didn’t survive. As per researchers’ analysis, the meteorite, dubbed Erg Chech ...