Desert Fireball Network students find fist-sized meteorite in outback WA
Students from Curtin University’s Desert Fireball Network have found a fist-sized meteorite in a remote part of Western…
In a first, NASA’s Perseverance finds an exotic rock on Mars
NASA’s official logo (Image source: NASA) NASA’s Perseverance rover found an unusually shaped rock called “Phippsaksla” on top…
10,000-year-old impact crater in China reveals meteorite strike equal to 40 atomic bombs
A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far…
SA Museum investigates whether meteorite collided with car on regional highway
Scientists are investigating whether an object that smashed and partially melted a man’s car windscreen was a meteorite,…
Moon dust from Chang’e-6 mission reveals asteroids carried water to Earth
In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks…
Seekers come up short in hunt for meteor seen in central Victorian night sky
Researchers are “disappointed” after a meteorite muster returned meagre results, but say they will continue to scour the…
Meteor shakes houses across central Victoria, leaving possible fragments between Bendigo and Ballarat
A meteor has caused what’s been described as a sonic boom that rattled houses across Victoria on Sunday…
Mars rock found in Niger sells for millions in New York
“Brazen! It is brazen!” Prof Paul Sereno says down the phone line from Chicago. He makes no effort…
Plane-sized near-Earth asteroid nothing to worry about
But first, you probably won’t have noticed – but dozens of asteroids have flown past Earth since the…