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Spy satellites, weather radars, and drones used to find new strewn field of meteorites

Researchers used a combination of defence satellites, weather radars, and drones to locate the largest meteorite-strewn area in Australia since the Murchison meteorite fall in 1969. Nine years after a six-tonne asteroid crashed through the Earth's atmosphere over South Australia. Curtin University, Monash University, and...

Earth’s composition was changed by collisional erosion

A team of Université Clermont Auvergne researchers, in collaboration with a colleague from Universität Bayreuth, discovered evidence that suggests the Earth's composition changed over time during its early years due to collisional erosion. The group describes their study of the amounts of samarium and...

Scientists used machine learning to find space rocks in Antarctica

Université libre de Bruxelles, Delft University of Technology and Vrije Universiteit Brussel researchers have used AI technology to find meteorites hidden in Antarctic ice. Scientists described how their AI system works. They also explained what it has shown them thus far. The study has been...