A mysterious "mudball" meteorite exploded in the skies above Costa Rica in 2019, scattering rare, water-rich rocks across the ...

Astronomers can measure how long ago these rocks were dug up from below the asteroid's surface by measuring the level of radioactive elements created by exposure to cosmic rays. This cosmic-ray ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...

"By measuring the cosmic ray exposure age of meteorites, we can determine that three of these twelve meteorites originated ...

(X-Ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/D. Wang et al.; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT) They were specifically looking for traces of silicon monoxide, a gas whose presence is particularly useful in tracing and delineating ...

Bloomsbury, Wikimedia Commons An award winning journalist with over 40 years of experience reporting on science and technology, climate change, health, environment and innovation, Dinesh C Sharma ...

Their brightness makes them excellent tools for tracing stellar populations ... OB star catalogs to improve our understanding of these cosmic giants. Early surveys, such as the Case-Hamburg ...