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Scientists Identify New Alloy Formed in Hiroshima Bomb Fireball

Its near‑quasicrystalline structure points to ultrafast condensation in the 1945 fireball, suggesting new directions for materials research.

Webb Detects Clay Minerals on Neptune’s Inner Moons and Rings

Batavia Sandstone Traces Reveal Multi‑Source VOC Supply Chain

Archived Spirit Data Reveal Water‑Linked Minerals in Martian Soil

Rare Hillsborough Meteorite Shows Salty Brines and Diverse Amino Acids

Chandrayaan‑3 Soil Matches First Known Lunar Meteorite, Study Finds

Pilbara Crater Dated to About 3.02 Billion Years Would Be Earth’s Oldest Known Impact Site

Lucy Reveals Peanut-Shaped Asteroid That Wobbles on Two Axes

NMDC-CMDC Recovers Five Diamonds From Chhattisgarh Exploration Block

Lucy Finds Tumbling Asteroid with Water-Altered Clay

Wobbling Peanut Asteroid Revealed as Water‑Altered Bilobed Object

Scientists Find First Garnet Grains in Martian Meteorite

Lucy Flyby Shows Peanut‑Shaped Asteroid Is Water‑Altered Fragment of Ancient Collision

Lunar Meteorite Reveals a 3.486‑Billion‑Year‑Old, Extremely High‑Temperature Impact

Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of a 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Giant Moon Impact

Study Links Stonehenge’s Altar Stone to Northeast Scotland via Dogger Bank

Sahara Meteorite Points to Moon‑Size Lost Protoplanet

High‑Altitude Pyrenees Cave Shows Repeated Prehistoric Use and Possible Early Copper Processing

Miner Proposes Magnetic Rocks as Cause of Bermuda Triangle Compass Failures

Decade‑Long Study Finds Steady Natural 'White' Hydrogen Flowing From Deep Canadian Mine