Crater Could Solve 1908 Tunguska Meteor Mystery
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In late June of 1908, a fireball exploded above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska,  Siberia, flattening more than 800 square miles of trees. Researchers think a meteor was responsible for the devastation, but neither its fragments nor any impact craters have been discovered.
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The rover Opportunity will soon go over the edge into Victoria Crater in search of new hints about Marsâs ancient, and possibly wet, past.
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A meteorite that struck a remote part of Peru made a crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill, according to local press reports.
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Sonic boom, purple and red flames, the works New Zealand was earlier today treated to a suspected meteor crash-landing which "rattled windows across the Pacific nation's South Island", Reuters reports.â¦
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The Moon offers a unique preserved laboratory free from the weathering that ages the record of how life arose on Earth. Studying radiation and polar craters may be targets for the next human or robotic missions.
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Hollow spheres found in a primordial meteorite could yield clues to the origin of life on Earth.
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An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.
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Prosecutors said Friday they have reopened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archaeologist said the remains of Nicholas II's son and heir to the throne may have finally been found.
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Tiny meteors, typically no larger than a grain of sand, frequently bore hot tunnels through Earth&#39;s air to leave behind thin, glowing trails of gas. We sometimes see them as dramatic &quot;shooting stars.&quot;
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There are intriguing new clues in the mystery of how the woolly mammoth met its demise in North America more than 10,000 years ago.
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PARIS  -- A comet or asteroid smashed into modern-day Germany some 2,200 years ago, unleashing energy equivalent to thousands of atomic bombs, scientists revealed.     The 1.1-kilometre (0.7-mile) diameter rock wacked into southeastern Bavaria, leaving an "exceptional field" of meteorites and impact craters that stretch from the town of Altoetting to an area around Lake Chiemsee, the scientists said Friday in an article in the latest issue of US magazine Astronomy...
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Researchers have found and raised fragments believed to be from a Soviet steamship that sank more than 70 years ago off the Arctic region of Chukotka, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.
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A pair of miniscule meteorite grains has helped astronomers settle a long-running debate on the origins of space dust belched out by dying stars.
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A decade-long mystery has been solved using data from ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton.
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An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years -- the origin of cosmic rays.
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Images from the spacecraft show two craters that may have been altered by the recent flow of water
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Astronomers in Indonesia say a large meteor was the most likely explanation for a loud explosion which was heard in Jakarta on Sunday.