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Earthquake strikes under Indian Ocean far off Australian coast, but no tsunami warning issued

EARTHQUAKES
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued. The epicenter was in the Indian Ocean 2,069 kilometers (1,283 miles) southwest of Albany on the southwest tip of Western Australia state at...

Ancient rocks reveal how water helped shape the world

ASTRONOMY
New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first continents, transforming the planet's early crust and helping to build the landmasses we see today. In an article published in Communications...

Pristine asteroid samples reveal secrets of the ancient solar system

ASTRONOMY
The key to the new discovery was the pristine condition of the samples. Many of the salts present degrade quickly when exposed to the atmosphere....

Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world

ASTRONOMY
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world,...

Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveal 2.83-billion-year-old basalt with depleted mantle source

ASTRONOMY
The moon has a global dichotomy, with its near and far sides having different geomorphology, topography, chemical composition, crustal thickness, and evidence of volcanism....

NASA is considering other ways of getting its Mars samples home

ASTRONOMY
In 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars. For the next three years, this astrobiology mission collected soil and rock...

NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth

ASTRONOMY
NASA's plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth is on hold until there's a faster, cheaper way, space agency officials said Monday. Retrieving...

Oldest known samples of brittle stars from supercontinent Gondwana discovered in South Africa

PALEONTOLOGY
A small team of paleontologists with members from Rhodes University, in South Africa, the National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg City, and the University...

NASA’s Perseverance rover shows off collection of Mars samples

ASTRONOMY
Even space robots know what "pics or it didn't happen" means: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover provided a panorama of its recently completed sample depot—a...

Perseverance takes a selfie to show off some of its samples

ASTRONOMY
One of the main jobs for the Perseverance Mars rover past few weeks has been collecting carefully selected samples of Mars rock and soil....

Asteroid samples continue to shed light on solar system history

ASTRONOMY
Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the...

NASA’s Perseverance rover collects two samples of Martian regolith

ASTRONOMY
NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to...

Chang’E-5 samples reveal how young volcanism occurred on the moon

ASTRONOMY
A new study led by Prof. Chen Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) provides an...

Asteroid samples contain ‘clues to origin of life’: Japan scientists

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Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have...
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