South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wānaka overnight with a loud sonic boom, the cause of which was a falling meteorite.

South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wanaka overnight with a loud sonic boom.

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When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Highlighting the BRLW Meteorite Damast’s bevy of high-end materials is a blade steel element from outer freakin’ space.

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With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

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