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Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago
A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...
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The Goba Meteorite: The Largest Meteorite Found on Earth and Its Secrets
The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 meters in diameter. Discovered near the town of Grootfontein in Namibia in ...
NASA tracking plane-sized asteroid approaching Earth today
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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China's Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling probe snaps gorgeous shots of Earth and the moon (video, photos)
China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.
A massive rock from Mars landed on Earth. It sold for a record $5.3M.
A massive Mars meteorite sold for a record-breaking $5.3 million at a Sotheby’s auction, making it the highest selling ...
Cantonment man finds rare meteorite after fireball
Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the ...
The Perseid meteor shower is underway. Here's when they'll peak in August
The Earth is currently edging into three active meteor debris fields: the Southern Delta Aquariids, the Alpha Capricornids and the Perseids.