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Meenakshi Wadhwa was recruited from Arizona State University, where she’s been serving as director of the School of Earth and ...
While we haven't hit peak viewing yet, the Perseids meteor shower is already streaking across night skies. Sign up for our ...
“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.
A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...
The Grand Canyon, one of the most iconic geological formations on Earth, may hold deeper secrets about our planet’s history than previously thought. A recent study has uncovered an unexpected ...
Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the neighborhood.
The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects Wednesday in New York. But a rare young dinosaur ...
Summer is one of the best times to see a meteor shower. Here's why.
The Perseid meteor shower, expected to peak Aug. 12-13, will light up the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour, offering ...
Get your lawn chairs ready, stargazers and space lovers! The Perseid meteor shower begins this week.The cause of this shower is due to the earth passing through bits of debris from the comet, ...
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...