In 2021, searchers recovered a meteorite that fell over the UK just hours earlier. Scientists have now reconstructed its story.
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Five new studies show smashing spacecraft into asteroids could be a viable way to defend Earth from threatening space rocks.
It’s time to get more Ghanaians interested in this fascinating, important aspect of science.
Within hours of its landing, samples of the Winchcombe meteorite had been recovered and its origins tracked back beyond Mars to the asteroid belt.
Believe it or not, this sort-of happened before in Earth’s history – and now we have the Moon.
In an extraterrestrial first, scientists have linked seismic waves on Mars to meteorite impact craters spotted via satellite.
The James Webb Space Telescope just released its first-ever exoplanet image. Here’s what’s so exciting about it, and what we can stand to learn.
By tracking a meteorite found in Morocco back to its origin in an asteroid crater on Mars millions of years ago, scientists can learn more about how the planets formed.
There are many bodies in the solar system we can’t easily access. But observations of their winds and sediments reveal a surprising amount.
A glimpse of a distant Jupiter-sized exoplanet sheds light on how gas giants form.
Ancient blobs deep inside the Earth gather together and break apart like continents, according to new research.
Plus, a section of a rocket is about to crash on the Moon. What scientists hope to learn from it. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Across the solar system, asteroids and comets crash into moons and planets every day. The rocket collision will provide researchers with important data on how these collisions work.
The Hayabusa2 mission brought a piece of asteroid Ryugu back to Earth, where it has helped scientists resolve a long-standing puzzle.
The mission is set to launch in March 2022. Here’s what you need to know.
As we await the launch of the James Webb Space telescope, it’s timely to look back on what previous generations of telescopes have shown us.
Most of what we know about planets outside our Solar System relates to gas-giant planets. A new study has identified and characterised a smaller exoplanet.
Tiny pieces of an asteroid have revealed an unlikely origin for much of the water in Earth’s oceans.
Volcanic Moon rocks collected by a Chinese probe last year are around 2 billion years old, a new analysis shows. That’s a billion years younger than those brought back by the Apollo and Luna missions.
The Binar-1 mission is the first in a series that will hopefully culminate in a mission to the Moon, with satellites developed using know-how gained from designing tough instruments for the WA outback.
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Assistant Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Program Manager / Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Associate, Curtin University
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Space Projects Manager & Mission Design Lead, University of Portsmouth
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Associate member of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW Sydney
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Postdoc astrophysicist, Mississippi State University
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ARC Future Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Co Director Space Technology and Industry Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
