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NASA Finds Pure Quartz on Mars—Could This Be Proof of Ancient Life?
NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered high-purity quartz crystals on Mars, a discovery that could reshape the search for ...
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A Meteor Crashed Into Mars and Sent Shockwaves Racing Across the Planet. It Apparently Happens More Often Than We Thought
These studies show that Mars is bombarded by meteorites far more often than previously thought — about 2.5 times more ...
Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
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Quartz crystals on Mars could preserve signs of ancient life
NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...
European spacecraft got rare close-up of Mars' lesser-known moon
While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...
Mars Gets a Close-Up and a Photo Bomb as Europe’s Hera Mission Swoops Past
The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.
Huge Impact Crater in Australia Breaks Record for World’s Oldest by Over a Billion Years
A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...
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World's oldest impact crater discovered in Australia
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has ...
Ancient Mars Once Boasted 'Vacation-Style' Beaches
"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.
‘A great success story for the Irish space strategy’: Technology designed in Dublin guiding Mars fly-by
Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by ...
Earth’s Oldest Crater May Have Jumpstarted All Life
“On Earth, this early impact record has seemingly been lost, reflecting the destructive efficiency of erosion and subduction ...
Perseverance team confronts a stubborn engineering challenge
The Perseverance team have faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called "Green Gardens ...