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On 28 September 1969, a fireball broke apart over a small Victorian farming town called Murchison and scattered black, carbon-rich rocks across the paddocks — and those rocks turned out to contain grains of stardust formed 7 billion years ago, older than the Sun, older than Earth, and the oldest solid material any human has ever held
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (396+ words) The Murchison meteorite preserved presolar silicon carbide grains that formed before the Sun, with some dated to roughly 7 billion years old....
An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia 11 million years ago, scattering molten glass across a 900-kilometre ellipse in South Australia — yet scientists still cannot find the crater it left behind
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (419+ words) The glass is small enough to sit in a museum drawer, but the event it points to was not small. A set of unusual Australian tektites, now called ananguites,...
A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (467+ words) A meteorite that fell to Earth from Mars now helps calibrate instruments on a rover exploring the Red Planet—a cosmic round trip that took 300,000 years. By Space Daily Editorial Team Published August 11, 2026 · How we edit In 1999, out on the…...
In 2025, Antarctic drillers reached bedrock and recovered ice that fell as snow 1.2 million years ago — with the air of that vanished world still sealed inside it
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (782+ words) A time capsule of ancient air reveals how Earth's climate operated in a world before humans existed....
In 1994, a park ranger abseiling into a canyon 150 kilometres northwest of Sydney found a stand of trees with knobbly bark that matched 90-million-year-old fossils, and the Wollemi pine's exact location is still classified
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (127+ words) In September 1994, off-duty NSW park ranger David Noble abseiled into a slot canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney and found a stand of trees that matched 90-million-year-old fossils. Fewer than 90 wild Wollemi pines remain, and the Australian government still keeps the grove's…...
The Italians named it Devil's Valley because of the steam pouring straight out of the ground. Turns out the steam was the mild part. A few kilometres below it sits enough molten rock to fill Lake Geneva forty times over
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (689+ words) Beneath Italy's steam vents lies a geothermal powerhouse so vast it could revolutionize how Europe generates clean energy—if engineers can safely tap into it. Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit The steam has been coming out of the ground for…...
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, 3+ 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…...
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, 20+ 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....
The Great Salt Lake is drying up, and as it pulls back it uncovers hundreds of square miles of lakebed laced with arsenic, sitting directly upwind of more than two million people
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (363+ words) A shrinking lake is exposing toxic dust that threatens millions downwind, turning an environmental crisis into a public health emergency. By Kiran Journals · Editorial process Published July 22, 2026 The dust doesn’t stop at the city boundary. It doesn’t respect zip codes....
In September 2018, three instruments at Antarctica’s Blood Falls recorded the same hidden event as Taylor Glacier dropped about 15 millimetres, cold brine entered Lake Bonney, and the escaping water briefly slowed the ice moving above it
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (898+ words) Discovered in 1911 by geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor during Scott's Terra Nova expedition, Antarctica's Blood Falls is fed by a reservoir of iron-rich brine sealed under 400 metres of ice for roughly 1.5 million years — and scientists have finally traced the mechanism that…...