What caused the fireballs that lit up the sky over Australia?
Over the past few days a pair of spectacular fireballs have graced Australia's skies.
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Over the past few days a pair of spectacular fireballs have graced Australia's skies.
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On April 23 at 9:09 p.m. local time, residents of Aguas Zarcas, a small town in Costa Rica, saw a large "fireball" in the sky.
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With human and sample-return missions to Mars still on the drawing board, geologists wishing to study the red planet rely on robotic helpers to collect and analyse samples. Earlier this year we said goodbye to NASA's Opportunity ...
Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Spanish astronomers now think the space rock collided with the Moon at 61,000 kilometres an ...
A grain of dust forged in the death throes of a long-gone star was discovered by a team of researchers led by the University of Arizona.