NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2021 recently spotted a rocky donut that may have landed on the Martian surface from the sky. The most powerful rover currently operating on Mars rolled up to the rocky donut on Friday (June 23) to capture the big, dark stone with …
Space rocks have been making their way into our home planet on various occasions. On February 12, at around 10 pm EST (0300 GMT, February 13), a space rock burned up through Earth’s atmosphere and makes its way over Europe. A few hours after this dramatic event, a space-focus citizen science volunteer group found a …
Meteorites and asteroids are flying space rocks that kept on crashing into our home planet from space and some of them contain building blocks of life. In 2021, one of these space rocks crashed on a driveway in England. Scientists named it the Winchcombe meteorite and preserved it for further analysis. In a recent study, …
