NASA’s experiment to deflect the Dimorph asteroid with an impact from the DART spacecraft in 2022 led to an unexpected consequence. Rocks that break off from Dimorph as a result of a collision with the probe will fall onto the surface of Mars. But this will happen only after thousands of years, scientists from the … Read more
2023-07-23 11:47:56 While drinking coffee on the terrace of the house, a stone fell from the sky on the body of the young woman. The incident took place on July 6 in France. The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, stated that she heard a loud explosion from the air before the black stone … Read more
samuel biener 24/03/2023 10:00 8 min The vast majority of meteorites that fall on the earth’s surface do so in the form of small fragments, although the remains of some of them reach several meters and tens of tons. Meteorites are one of the natural phenomena that arouse the most interest and fear. The impact … Read more
Roma. Researchers from the Italian Institute of Astrophysics (Inas) have located new fragments of a meteorite that fell last week in the city of Matera (southern Italy) and that would be 45,000 million years old, as many as the solar system, according to the first results. of the investigations. The meteorite, which fell at 300 … Read more
WHEN THE EARTH TOUCHED THE SKY Although on a very large scale, the first modeling of the impact, carried out by Brandon C. Johnson, lecturer from Purdue University, Indiana, gives a rather striking idea of the consequences of the impact of the asteroid. From the first seconds, the ocean and the earth’s crust rise well … Read more
A new Australian study said that the Earth’s continents were formed by the impact of giant meteorites on Earth, during the first billion years of our planet’s life. About 3.6 billion years ago, the Earth was a single large continent that scientists call the “Great Valpara” continent, and then that continent began to split for … Read more
Our readers are Twitter users You can now follow the latest news for free through our Twitter accountClick here to subscribe No one wants to walk through a cloud of dust and debris…but sometimes that coincidence can be magical. As Earth navigates through a cloud of cosmic debris this month, the night skies will be … Read more
A study published in “Nature Communications” could tell us more about the origin of life on Earth. Is the origin of life on Earth the result of a long chemical process? Or does it come from space? It would seem that the second proposition is more probable. Japanese researchers have just discovered for the first … Read more