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Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...
The biggest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth is going under the hammer — and it’s got collectors buzzing from London to ...
Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation ...
The Tellus Science Museum in Georgia added a 150-gram meteorite, recently seen blazing through the sky, to its collection.
The Tellus Science Museum announced last week that it acquired a piece of the meteorite, which created a visible fireball ...
A piece of outer space rock that blasted through the sky above metro Atlanta is now a part of Georgia's Tellus Science Museum ...
Cartersville’s Tellus Science Museum has collected a piece of the meteorite that fell from the sky and landed in the Henry ...
A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...
Planetary Scientists Find Unexpected Mineral In 496-Million-Ton Asteroid — And It Defies Ryugu's Origin Story The latest findings from asteroid Ryugu have shocked researchers and forced them to ...
A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study hints.
   Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, published online this week, astronomers trace the impact orbit ...
The second was iron, which would have been plentiful in the deep Archean oceans but not in the shallow seas. The tsunami caused by the meteorite strike would have mixed the oceans, bringing this metal ...