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In 1920, a Namibian farmer hit something with his plow that turned out to be the largest meteorite ever found on EarthA Namibian farmer in 1920 discovered Hoba, the world's largest meteorite. Unlike dramatic impacts, this massive iron slab landed quietly, l...
NASA’s Rover Found a Lost River System Under Mars, And It Changes What We Know About Its PastNASA's Perseverance Rover has uncovered a hidden river delta on Mars. This discovery suggests Mars experienced multiple wet periods, not ju...
A billion-year secret: How Lunar ice could turn the Moon into a Space ‘gas station', provide fuel for Mars tripScientists have confirmed lunar polar ice has been accumulating for 1.5 billion years. This ancient ice, scattered across different regions...
Earth’s Forgotten Collisions: Where Ancient Impact Craters Have Been HidingBeneath Earth's seemingly calm surface lie hidden scars from colossal asteroid impacts. These ancient craters, buried by ice, sediment, and...
‘India’s Chandrayaan missions redefined lunar science for all’India successfully landed its third lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-3, 70 degrees to the south pole of the moon on August 23, 2023. India is...
US bomb from World War II buried at Japanese airport explodes, causing large crater in taxiwayAn unexploded US World War II bomb detonated at Miyazaki Airport in Japan, creating a large crater and leading to the cancellation of over ...
Chandrayaan-3 landed within a buried, one of the oldest craters on Moon: PRL-ISRO studyChandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover and Vikram lander have landed in an ancient, buried impact crater approximately 160 km in diameter and 4.4 km...
Chandrayaan-3 landed on a 3.85 bn-year-old lunar crater, says researcherIndia's Chandrayaan-3 mission has possibly landed in one of the Moon's oldest craters, dating back 3.85 billion years. Images from the Prag...
Asteroid’s impact may have led to mysterious 'Mega Tsunami’ on Mars, says reportAccording to a recent report, an asteroid’s impact on Mars may have been the cause of the mysterious "Mega Tsunami."
Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroidIntriguingly, the crater, named "Nadir" after the nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, is of the same age as the Chicxulub impact caused by a hug...
Bolaven Plateau: People, places and things beyond headlinesA bit of astronomy and geology. It is about a meteorite.
A look at five biggest meteor crashes of all timeThe oldest recorded meteorite, the Ensisheim struck earth on November 7, 1492, in Ensisheim, France. A 330-pound stone dropped from the sky...
Ancient Mars hosted habitable environments: StudyThe extent of the global distribution of martian carbonates is not yet fully resolved and the early climate on the red planet is still subj...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures boulders on martian landslideThe landslide is relatively fresh, as many individual boulders still stand out above the main deposit, researchers said.
Gigantic water ice slab found on MarsResearchers have discovered an enormous ice slab on Mars, measuring 130 feet thick and covering an area equivalent to that of California an...
340 undiscovered meteorite impact sites on EarthAround 90 craters with a diameter of one to six kilometres and a further 250 with a diameter of 250 to 1000 meters are still awaiting disco...
Moon's most unusual volcano more massive than thoughtLead author and Durham University PhD student Jack Wilson said he was surprised by the gigantic scale of the explosion.
NASA probe indicates asteroid once had flowing waterVesta was once thought to be completely dry, incapable of retaining water because of the low temperatures and pressures at its surface.
Indian-American scholar to explore dinosaur extinctionGrants were also awarded to about 800 other US faculty members, according to the statement, who are conducting their research in 140 countr...
- Dinosaur whodunit: Is Shiva crater the missing link?
It could be the plot of a mega disaster movie. A huge asteroid, nearly 40 km in diameter, comes hurtling towards earth.