Data from two meteorite impacts on Mars recorded by NASA’s InSight spacecraft provides new insights into the structure of the Martian crust. NASA’s InSight mission collected data on two meteorite impacts on…
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Newly Detected ‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Could One Day Threaten Earth
Astronomers have detected a “planet killer” asteroid passing through Earth’s orbit and could slowly approach us centuries from now. With a diameter of about 1.1 km to 2.3 km, the asteroid, named…
Meteorite blasts ‘largest new crater’ NASA has ever seen on Mars
A recent meteorite impact on Mars was so powerful it could be felt by a NASA lander thousands of miles away – and the new Martian crater it created could affect our…
A colossal meteorite hit Mars. Then NASA made an even bigger discovery.
It wasn’t the average earthquake the Insight Mars lander heard roaring through the Red Planet’s soil last Christmas Eve. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter apparently found the source of the rumble a few…
New meteorite impact craters discovered on Mars
Curtin University researchers have helped uncover the largest fresh meteor impact craters on Mars since NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began scouring the planet 16 years ago. On December 24, 2021, NASA InSight…
Pig vomit toxin is the key to the Martian meteorite mystery
A Glasgow-based science sleuth may have helped solve a century-old mystery surrounding the discovery of a Martian meteorite thanks to a toxin that makes pigs vomit. The Lafayette meteorite was found in…
Science sleuths solve the century-old mystery of the discovery of a Martian meteorite
The four black Purdue University students that researchers have identified, one of whom may have picked up Lafayette. Clockwise from top left: Hermanze Edwin Fauntleroy, Clinton Edward Shaw, Julius Lee Morgan and…