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In 2018, a new mineral — feiite — discovered in a Martian meteorite, was named after Fei to honor his ... offering the first full-length study of non-white Spanish Caribbean sailors and other ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Researchers from the Department of Physics have managed to experimentally develop a new magnetic state: a magneto-ionic vortex or "vortion." The research, published in Nature Communications ...

Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters ... Founded in 1984, the SETI Institute is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary research and education ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The discovery of the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, dates back 3.5 billion years, significantly older ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.