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In 1920, a farmer ploughing near Grootfontein in Namibia struck a buried slab of iron weighing roughly 60 tonnes. It proved to be Hoba, the largest intact meteorite ever found, and it has never been moved from where it landed—probably less than 80,000 years ago. No crater survives around it; its broad, flat shape may have slowed its descent until it struck more like a colossal dropped anvil than a cosmic projectile.
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (855+ words) Hoba’s 60-tonne iron mass, missing crater and disputed discovery story constrain a rare atmospheric descent that no surviving witness saw....
Olympus Mons grew so massive that parts of its lower flanks catastrophically collapsed, sending broken rock sliding hundreds of kilometres across the Martian plains—possibly lubricated when hot lava melted buried ice.
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (718+ words) Orbital evidence links Olympus Mons's aureole to immense flank failures. Water or ice may explain the long runout, but lava-driven melting remains one proposed mechanism....
Scientists found a 3.7-billion-year-old chemical fingerprint in Australia’s oldest rocks that lines up with Apollo samples when traced back through time — strengthening evidence that Earth and the Moon were mixed together in a giant ancient impact
1+ week, 1+ day ago (381+ words) A distant lunar sample and Earth's most ancient rocks are telling the same isotopic story—one that only makes sense if a catastrophic collision once scrambled our planet and its future Moon together....
Models of the flood that refilled the Mediterranean put its peak flow through Gibraltar at roughly 100 million cubic metres a second — around 1,000 times the Amazon's average discharge — with erosion at the Camarinal Sill reaching roughly 0.4 metres a day
2+ week, 4+ day ago (105+ words) When an ancient sea vanished, its return was so catastrophic that it reshaped geology itself—yet scientists still debate exactly how violent the deluge truly was....
Earth has had eight continents all along — the one missing from every map and school textbook is nearly twice the size of India, 94 percent underwater, and has been quietly sitting beneath the South Pacific for 85 million years
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (108+ words) Zealandia is a coherent 4.9-million-square-kilometre body of continental crust, about 94 per cent submerged. Its classification depends on geology beneath the coastline, not a newly discovered landmass....
A rock blasted off Mars is not a comet and is only a meteor for seconds; in space it is a meteoroid, and on the ground it becomes a Martian meteorite
1+ mon, 23+ hour ago (508+ words) The same Martian rock transforms into four different things before scientists can even study it....
Mars can snow carbon dioxide at its poles, while some of its warmest summer landscapes grow dry-ice frost overnight that vanishes back into gas after sunrise
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (583+ words) Mars can produce snow from carbon dioxide near its winter poles. Far from those seasonal caps, however, the same material can appear in a quieter and more...
A zircon crystal small enough to sit on a fingertip, found in the Jack Hills of Western Australia, has been dated to 4.404 billion years old, right around the same moment a 2025 study says the Moon itself finished crystallizing
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (29+ words) A speck of ancient Earth and our newborn Moon may have formed within moments of each other, upending how scientists understand the young solar system's violent beginning....
For years scientists argued whether the pale band along Jezero crater's western inner rim was lakeshore sediment or altered igneous rock. A study published in January 2026 suggests both sides were partly right — one stretch of it looks like a beach
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (573+ words) Mars's most disputed geological feature may finally reveal what it is: a shoreline where ancient water met stone. Published August 10, 2026 · How we edit Look at Jezero crater from orbit and one feature stands out: a pale band along the inside…...
A grain of stardust extracted from the Murchison meteorite that landed in Victoria in 1969 was dated to roughly 7 billion years old, meaning it condensed in the atmosphere of a dying star more than 2 billion years before the Sun existed
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (552+ words) A silicon carbide grain extracted from the Murchison meteorite, which fell on a Victorian dairy farm in 1969, was dated in 2020 to about seven billion years old — condensed in the atmosphere of a dying star more than two billion years before…...