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There will be a future mining boom, as heralded in recent media stories. But this mining will take place in a location even more hostile than the Australian Outback – space. More specifically, the ore…
Earth went through a heavy asteroid bombardment as changes in the solar system flung asteroids from the belt between Mars…
Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have revealed unusual geological features on the surface of the asteroid Vesta, one of…
A NASA spacecraft called Dawn has delivered fresh images of an enormous asteroid called Vesta, revealing new detail about the giant object’s turbulent past. A video made up of images collected as Dawn…
Early results from analysis of dust on the Hayabusa space capsule, which landed in South Australia last year have revealed…
Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space capsule that landed in Woomera last year has been matched with samples of meteorites found on Earth, providing new clues about where meteorites came from. The…
The theory that a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs has gained greater plausibility after Yale University researchers discovered…
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