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Slava Ukraini
Finding Meteorites in Antarctica: More Antarctic info. As many as 300,000 meteorites await discovery atop the continent’s ice, and now scientists have a map...but better hurry as it is warming up. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Finding Meteorite Hotspots in Antarctica - NASA Science
As many as 300,000 meteorites await discovery atop the continent’s ice, and now scientists have a map showing where to look.
science.nasa.gov
February 7, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Finding Meteorites in Antarctica: More Antarctic info. As many as 300,000 meteorites await discovery atop the continent’s ice, and now scientists have a map...but better hurry as it is warming up. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Using Magnets for discovery: Put down your magnets!. Using a magnet for discovery or ID is an easy task, but it could damage or change the imprinted magnetic field held by the meteorite. Good read! news.mit.edu/2023/simple-...
A message to meteorite hunters: Put down your magnets!
An MIT study finds the hand magnets often used by meteorite hunters to identify a meteorite usually erase the meteorite’s magnetic memory — and much of its scientific value.
news.mit.edu
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Using Magnets for discovery: Put down your magnets!. Using a magnet for discovery or ID is an easy task, but it could damage or change the imprinted magnetic field held by the meteorite. Good read! news.mit.edu/2023/simple-...
Antarctica Meteorites: More than 60% of meteorite finds on Earth originate from Antarctica. Climate Change and the rapid warming in Antarctica are making these meteorites harder to recover. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming - Nature Climate Change
Most of the meteorites on the Earth’s surface are found in Antarctica. Here the authors show that ~5,000 meteorites become inaccessible per year as they melt into the ice due to climate change.
www.nature.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Antarctica Meteorites: More than 60% of meteorite finds on Earth originate from Antarctica. Climate Change and the rapid warming in Antarctica are making these meteorites harder to recover. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bronze Treasure: This Bronze aged treasure from present day Spain has numerous gold items plus Iron/Nickle items from meteorites. Ancient cultures revered and sought meteorites for both their physical and mysterious and religious qualities www.sciencealert.com/strange-meta...
Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Spotted in Ancient Treasure Stash
Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.
www.sciencealert.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Bronze Treasure: This Bronze aged treasure from present day Spain has numerous gold items plus Iron/Nickle items from meteorites. Ancient cultures revered and sought meteorites for both their physical and mysterious and religious qualities www.sciencealert.com/strange-meta...
Spinning Asteroid: A powerful new telescope in South America(thank you Chile) is already offering tantalizing hints of what it can do. Rotation makes it harder to project movement...why this spinning...a glancing blow perhaps www.space.com/astronomy/as...
Vera Rubin Observatory spots the fastest-spinning large asteroid ever found
2025 MN45 is 0.4 miles wide and completes one rotation every 1.88 minutes.
www.space.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Spinning Asteroid: A powerful new telescope in South America(thank you Chile) is already offering tantalizing hints of what it can do. Rotation makes it harder to project movement...why this spinning...a glancing blow perhaps www.space.com/astronomy/as...
War on Science: On Dec. 16 2025, the Trump administration announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) one of the world's leading weather and climate research centers. Closing NCAR will degrade public safety and economics. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Forced closure of premier US weather-modeling institute could endanger millions of Americans
From high-wind forecasts and wildfire behavior to floods, aviation hazards, air quality and space weather, science developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research informs decisions that aim ...
www.livescience.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 AM
War on Science: On Dec. 16 2025, the Trump administration announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) one of the world's leading weather and climate research centers. Closing NCAR will degrade public safety and economics. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Mercury Meteorite?: Scientists say two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury. The least studied and most mysterious of the solar system’s rocky planets, Mercury is being uncloaked. www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/s...
Two meteorites found in the Sahara could be from the solar system’s least studied rocky planet, scientists say | CNN
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost p...
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January 24, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Mercury Meteorite?: Scientists say two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury. The least studied and most mysterious of the solar system’s rocky planets, Mercury is being uncloaked. www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/s...
Missing Mercury Meteorites: Most meteorites come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the Moon and Mars...and a few others from our next door neighbor Mercury. theconversation.com/the-mystery-...
The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites – and how we may have finally found some
Meteorites may be the only practical way to study Mercury’s surface directly.
theconversation.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Missing Mercury Meteorites: Most meteorites come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the Moon and Mars...and a few others from our next door neighbor Mercury. theconversation.com/the-mystery-...
Carbonaceous chondrites: Are a rare meteorite that are primitive and fragile and were responsible for bringing all the water to early Earth. California meteorite collectors found buyers offering multi hundreds of dollars per gram for these space rocks. www.americanscientist.org/article/unre...
Unrepresentative Meteorites
Carbon-containing asteroids are common in the Solar System, but they rarely reach Earth because the harsh journey can destroy fragile chemical components.
www.americanscientist.org
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Carbonaceous chondrites: Are a rare meteorite that are primitive and fragile and were responsible for bringing all the water to early Earth. California meteorite collectors found buyers offering multi hundreds of dollars per gram for these space rocks. www.americanscientist.org/article/unre...
Wilkes Land crater: The giant dent, 315 miles wide, in East Antarctica's gravitational field is likely caused by a meteorite much larger than the one which killed the dinosaurs. Age is 250 million years old, hitting just before the Permian-Triassic extinction. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
This giant hole beneath Antarctica could be the 'greatest impact crater known' on Earth
Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.
www.livescience.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Wilkes Land crater: The giant dent, 315 miles wide, in East Antarctica's gravitational field is likely caused by a meteorite much larger than the one which killed the dinosaurs. Age is 250 million years old, hitting just before the Permian-Triassic extinction. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Comet C/2025 R3: Researchers say they may have already spotted the "Great Comet of 2026," dubbed C/2025 R3 (Pan-STARRS). It will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could potentially be visible to the naked eye. www.livescience.com/space/comets...
Astronomers may have already spotted the 'Great Comet of 2026' — and it could soon be visible to the naked eye
Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could potentially be visible to the naked eye. It may end up being the brightest c...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Comet C/2025 R3: Researchers say they may have already spotted the "Great Comet of 2026," dubbed C/2025 R3 (Pan-STARRS). It will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could potentially be visible to the naked eye. www.livescience.com/space/comets...
Ancient CO2 Levels: Micrometeorites, unlike their larger brethren, rarely get a spotlight at museums. But there's plenty to learn from these extraterrestrial particles. Iron-rich particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth. www.space.com/stargazing/m...
Fossilized micrometeorites record ancient carbon dioxide levels
A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions of years ago.
www.space.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Ancient CO2 Levels: Micrometeorites, unlike their larger brethren, rarely get a spotlight at museums. But there's plenty to learn from these extraterrestrial particles. Iron-rich particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth. www.space.com/stargazing/m...
Water on Mars: The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue university in 1931 harboring evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
Meteorite found in a drawer at university contains 700-million-year-old evidence of water on Mars
The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there. A new analysis of the rock reveals evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 m...
www.livescience.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Water on Mars: The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue university in 1931 harboring evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
Meteorite Metal: Scientists determined that two artifacts in the Bronze Age hoard were made with meteoric iron. This Bronze Age hoard discovered in Spain more than 60 years ago contains some out-of-this-world metal. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Bronze Age 'treasure' was crafted with extraterrestrial metal
Researchers determined that two artifacts in the Bronze Age hoard were made with meteoric iron.
www.livescience.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Meteorite Metal: Scientists determined that two artifacts in the Bronze Age hoard were made with meteoric iron. This Bronze Age hoard discovered in Spain more than 60 years ago contains some out-of-this-world metal. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Opal: Meteorite found in Antarctica contains out of this world opal fragments. Scientists have discovered pieces of opal in a meteorite found in Antarctica which show that meteorites delivered water ice to asteroids early in the history of the solar system. www.geologyin.com/2016/06/opal...
Opal Discovered in Antarctic Meteorite – Geology In
Meteorite found in Antarctica contains out of this world opal fragments Planetary scientists have discovered pieces of opal in a meteorite...
www.geologyin.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Opal: Meteorite found in Antarctica contains out of this world opal fragments. Scientists have discovered pieces of opal in a meteorite found in Antarctica which show that meteorites delivered water ice to asteroids early in the history of the solar system. www.geologyin.com/2016/06/opal...
Donald needs a copy of "How to win friends and Influence People"...oh that's right...he doesn't read...and it shows
January 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Donald needs a copy of "How to win friends and Influence People"...oh that's right...he doesn't read...and it shows
Quadrantids meteor shower: Overnight on Jan. 3-4, 2026 we have the Quadrantids annual meteor shower reaches its peak. www.livescience.com/space/starga...
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Quadrantids meteor shower: Overnight on Jan. 3-4, 2026 we have the Quadrantids annual meteor shower reaches its peak. www.livescience.com/space/starga...
Shocked Quartz: When two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other, the impact makes them shocked...unless they are carbon rich. Meteorites that contain carbon appear less affected by such violent encounters than those that don't. www.space.com/the-universe...
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December 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Shocked Quartz: When two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other, the impact makes them shocked...unless they are carbon rich. Meteorites that contain carbon appear less affected by such violent encounters than those that don't. www.space.com/the-universe...
www.space.com/the-universe..
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Faux Meteorite: Not a meteorite but manmade debris falling from space is a disaster waiting to happen. When a piece of debris hits another object in space, it can also create more space debris, adding to the problem. www.space.com/space-explor...
December 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Faux Meteorite: Not a meteorite but manmade debris falling from space is a disaster waiting to happen. When a piece of debris hits another object in space, it can also create more space debris, adding to the problem. www.space.com/space-explor...
Mars Meteorite: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found a possible meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet. If its origin is confirmed, this would be Perseverance's first meteorite find since arriving at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. www.space.com/space-explor...
After 5 years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover may have found its 1st meteorite (photos)
NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.'
www.space.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Mars Meteorite: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found a possible meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet. If its origin is confirmed, this would be Perseverance's first meteorite find since arriving at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. www.space.com/space-explor...
Drones: Scientists in Western Australia have carried out the first recovery of an observed meteorite fall with the help of drones and machine-learning techniques. The finding could pave the way for more falls to be located and studied. physicsworld.com/a/huge-leap-...
'Huge leap' as scientists report first drone-assisted space rock recovery after observed meteorite fall – Physics World
Researchers in Western Australia have been working on automating the discovery of meteorites with drones and machine learning
physicsworld.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Drones: Scientists in Western Australia have carried out the first recovery of an observed meteorite fall with the help of drones and machine-learning techniques. The finding could pave the way for more falls to be located and studied. physicsworld.com/a/huge-leap-...
Psyche the $100,000 quadrillion asteroid : Ever wonder where those iron meteorites come from? Irons are not the most common meteorites, about 15%, but they are easier to recognize and collect. www.livescience.com/space/astero...
$100,000 quadrillion asteroid Psyche may be the product of metal volcanoes, study hints
The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more likely if the space rock is made of the same chemicals as metal-rich meteorite...
www.livescience.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Psyche the $100,000 quadrillion asteroid : Ever wonder where those iron meteorites come from? Irons are not the most common meteorites, about 15%, but they are easier to recognize and collect. www.livescience.com/space/astero...
Ursid meteor shower 2025: The longest night of the year approaches. On Dec. 21-22, keep an eye out for "shooting stars" as the annual Ursid meteor shower peaks. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
Ursid meteor shower 2025: When and where to see 'shooting stars' on the longest night of the year
Here's how to see the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks in dark skies close to a new moon this year.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ursid meteor shower 2025: The longest night of the year approaches. On Dec. 21-22, keep an eye out for "shooting stars" as the annual Ursid meteor shower peaks. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
More Comet 3I/ATLAS: The U.N.'s International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) has this comet under close observation by 80+ citizen scientists from around the world. Is it a threat to Earth...probably not, but that green glow it is emitting. www.livescience.com/space/comets...
The UN is closely watching alien comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's why.
Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.
www.livescience.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
More Comet 3I/ATLAS: The U.N.'s International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) has this comet under close observation by 80+ citizen scientists from around the world. Is it a threat to Earth...probably not, but that green glow it is emitting. www.livescience.com/space/comets...