A team of planetary scientists at Arizona State University has found evidence that the multitude of bright flashes in Venus' atmosphere may be due to meteors passing through, not lightning strikes. In their paper published ...
A crater in western Australia was formed by a meteor strike more than 2.2 billion years ago and is the world's oldest known impact site, new research published Wednesday shows.
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Thais were left stunned Monday after a suspected meteor streaked through the daytime skies in a phenomena that also quickly lit up social media.
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2015
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History was made last night when citizen scientists detected Britain's first example of a lightning strike into space.
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2013
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Sometimes opportunity just falls out of the sky – especially if you're Physics and Astronomy professor Peter Brown.
Space Exploration
Jul 5, 2013
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Russian officials on Tuesday proposed ideas ranging from planting beacon transmitters on asteroids to megaton-sized nuclear strikes to avert the threat from meteor collisions with the Earth.
Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2013
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When the sun rose over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, Feb. 15th, many residents of nearby Chelyabinsk already knew that a space rock was coming. Later that day, an asteroid named 2012 DA14 would pass by Earth only 17,200 ...
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2013
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A meteor strike in central Russia on Friday that left hundreds of people injured is the biggest known human toll from a space rock, a British expert said.
Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2013
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An Australian study has uncovered signs that the country's ancient Aborigines may have been the world's first stargazers, pre-dating Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids by thousands of years.
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2010
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Picture a dinosaur. Huge, menacing creatures, they ruled the Earth for nearly 200 million years, striking fear with every ground-shaking stride. Yet these great beasts were no match for a 6-mile wide meteor that struck near ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2010
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