"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

A fireball dubbed the Mother's Day Meteorite has been found in a salt lake in Western Australia by a country police officer ...

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Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is known for its fast fireballs, which occur as Earth passes through the rubble left by Halley’s comet.

On the early morning of May 12, truck driver Brian Robbins witnessed the meteor illuminate the sky above Coolgardie, ...

In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Kurosawa says: “We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to ...

You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 ... larger bodies like the dwarf planet Ceres should have enough gravity to to pull the ejected material ...

This annual meteor shower is expected to produce up to 20 meteors per hour, although some experts say to expect closer to five. The meteors will look like faint streaks across the sky. The cloud ...

Scientists noticed, though, that meteorites containing carbon often appear as if they experienced less intense impacts and look less “shocked” than ... to obtain samples from other planetary bodies ...