For many years, planetary scientists have believed that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history (OK, the time ...

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A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The ...

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A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash landing.

It's hard enough to see a meteorite strike on Earth: Most of the bits of space debris that survive entry into the atmosphere plunge into the ocean, which covers about 70 percent of the planet. The ...

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A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to CNN which spoke with researchers who studied it ...