The post Microbes Learned To Thrive In An Ancient Meteor Impact Crater And Mineral Formations Were The End Result first on TwistedSifter. Just under million years ago, an asteroid hit western Finland, ...

I perched on the edge of disaster. Oddly enough, I wanted to laugh, perhaps in a strange effort to reduce the planet’s best ...

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Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

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This past week, nonagenarian Don Kelsey — a retired educator and handyman — visited Lowell Observatory with family and friends to introduce them to an old friend whose story threads through some of ...

Space scientists have spotted a city-sized “butterfly” on Mars. A striking new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has revealed a 20 km-wide crater resembling the ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and the find could change the way researchers think about where life can survive ...

According to scientists, it means that the rock was formed in other places within the solar system. Discovery of a Possible Meteorite According to NASA, Perseverance first spotted the boulder on Sept.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 20, 2025, 08:01am EST Nov 21, 2025, 11:53am EST Aerial view ...

During the Mars rover’s recent investigation of the planet, NASA found something that shouldn’t be there. According to the space organization, the Perseverance rover found a boulder near the rim of ...