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Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the ...
Meteorites from Mercury have never been found on Earth. But two pieces discovered in the Sahara desert might be remnants of ...
Two meteorites discovered in the Sahara Desert could potentially be fragments of Mercury that broke off during a collision in ...
Found in the Sahara Desert, the space rocks contain some materials we haven’t detected on Mercury, but we’re not ruling it ...
The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," per CBS News.
Scientists may have solved alongstanding mystery in the study of Mercury. For the first time, pieces of the Solar System’s ...
Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...
Without meteorites, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. As writer Maria Golia explains in her new book, Meteorite: Nature And Culture, meteorite bombardments during Earth’s infancy may have ...
But no one bit, and so the Hodges donated the meteorite to the natural history museum in 1956, where it's still on display. (Related: "Meteorites: Best Places to See Them Up Close.") ...
New observations of the “city killer” asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with the Earth indicate it will miss the planet but strike the Moon and pose “potential danger” to ...