Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 14:43
A small brown-black rock that landed near a Dutch village in 1873 is actually a rare meteorite that may be as old as the solar system which formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago, scientists say.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 11:40
A meteorite found in the Sahara last year by Bedouin tribesmen is a rock from Mars, revealing that the Red Planet`s crust formed 4.4 billion years ago, scientists reported on Wednesday.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 15:41
Indian-origin paleontologist, Dr. Sankar Chatterjee, believes that he has found the answer to the question about how life on Earth began more than 3.8 billion years ago.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 19:30
Meteorite bombardment left large craters on Earth that contained water and chemical building blocks for life, which ultimately led to the first organisms 4 billion years ago, an Indian-origin scientist suggests.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 12:57
A meteorite may help explain as to how the Red Planet became a cold, rocky desert after losing its thick, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, according to researchers.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 20:33
Divers have found the largest piece so far of a meteorite which hit Russia`s Chelyabinsk region in February this year, a scholar said Wednesday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 15:10
A physics professor has suggested that an early-warning telescope should be built to search for asteroids - about the size of a football field.
Last Updated: Sunday, September 29, 2013, 10:46
Researchers have proposed a space-based laser system to NASA that could turn out to be a cost-effective way to nudge small asteroids away from a collision course with Earth.
Last Updated: Monday, September 16, 2013, 10:33
A new study suggests that the building blocks of life can spontaneously come into existence when icy comets smash into planets.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 12:10
Chelyabinsk meteorite had either earlier collided with another body in the solar system or came too close to the Sun before it fell to Earth, according to a new research.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 15:41
Cosmic jewellery! Some of the earliest iron artifacts ever found - beads strung into a necklace found in a 5000-year-old Egyptian cemetery - were made from a meteorite, archaeologists have found.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 10:18
A Russian researcher has claimed to have discovered fragments of the largest celestial body to hit the Earth in recorded history - in 1908 -though he has waited for 23 years before going public with the findings.
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