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Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...
Scientists say a meteorite that struck a Henry County home is over 4 billion years old, making it about 20 million years older than Earth. The space rock likely came from the main asteroid belt ...
There's been lots of excitement about the meteorites that fell from the California fireball. Hunters have converged around the town of Coloma, home of the famed Sutter's Mill where the California gold ...
One of the coolest things to see in the summertime happens from late July through late August. When night falls during this time, eyes are drawn to the night sky to see the annual Perseid Meteor ...
Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned into the planets we know today. One giant, Jupiter, grew quickly and changed ...
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Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...
Divers working at Lake Chebarkul have recovered a half-ton piece of the meteorite that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. The fly-over, a viral, online sensation at the time (the YouTube ...
Meteors from the Leonids can be spotted in the constellation Leo, and will be visible from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. This year, the moon will be 9 percent full, which is good news ...
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'It was so simple': How Antarctica's missing meteorites were discovered using a block of ice, a freezer and a lamp
There are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden beneath Antarctica's icy surface, some of which are slowly sinking out of reach. You might think that these submerged space rocks would be very ...
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