NASA's Perseverance rover discovers a shiny metallic rock nicknamed 'Phippsaksla' on Mars that scientists believe could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid.

Why quasicrystals shouldn't exist but are turning up in strange places Matter with "forbidden" symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the world's most extreme environments In autumn 1945, Lincoln LaPaz crouched over a patch of scorched ground in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico. LaPaz, an astronomer, was out hunting for meteorites. He had spotted something in the dust: a strange, glittering crust of blood-red glass. This was no meteorite, but it was striking enough that he held onto it. It wasn't until decades later that anyone would realise quite how special LaPaz's chance find was.

They're rare events, but the results are dramatic. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Mars receives its fair share of cosmic collisions . With less than one percent the atmosphere as Earth, some meteoroids fail to burn up entirely before reaching the Red Planet's surface. When they do, they can usher dramatic changes to the barren Martian landscape that stretch for miles.

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New research that harnessed the power of artificial intelligence has identified the specific crater on Mars that ejected the ancient Black Beauty meteorite. The researchers named the Mars crater after the Australian city of Karratha, which is home to one of the oldest terrestrial rocks. The discovery offers never-known details about the Martian meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed'Black Beauty,' which was found in Africa in 2011, according to researchers. 'For the first time, we know the geological context of the only brecciated Martian sample available on Earth,' says Dr. Anthony Lagain. 'For the first time, we know the geological context of the only brecciated Martian sample available on Earth, 10 years before the NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is set to send back samples collected by the Perseverance rover currently exploring the Jezero crater,' lead author Dr. Anthony Lagain, from Curtin University's Space Science and Technology Center in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, says in a statement.

Scientists have revealed more about the origins of the famous'Black Beauty' meteorite, also known as NWA 7034. The researchers used AI to analyse thousands of high-resolution planetary images of the Martian surface from a range of Mars missions. They found Black Beauty was ejected into space when an asteroid impacted the planet's surface and created the six-mile-wide Karratha Crater 5-10 million years ago. Black Beauty, which weighs just 11 ounces (320 grams), led to the creation of a new class of meteorite when it was discovered in 2011 in the Western Sahara Desert. The meteorite was ejected from Mars' Karratha Crater 5-10 million years ago by an asteroid impact Five to ten million years ago an asteroid smashed into Mars.

Last year, researchers from Curtin University tracked the fall of a meteorite in Western Australia, using advanced technologies.

Last year, a meteorite was discovered at the remote Kybo Station on the Nullarbor Plain. It's only 70g – roughly the same as a large egg – and looks suspiciously like kangaroo faeces. Drone imagery of a 5 square kilometre'fall zone' was used to find the small space rock in the vast WA desert. The footage was then examined for meteorites using artificial intelligence, and voila! This is the first time this strategy has worked anyplace on the planet.

Some of these meteorites fall in regions on Earth where fireball observatory networks are active, making it possible to record the trajectory of the fireball as it ablates material from the originating meteoroid. For some fireballs, this data can then be used to simulate both forward and backward in time to predict where the resulting meteorite landed on Earth and where the meteoroid originated in the solar system. Thus, recovering and analyzing these'orbital meteorites' with constrained, prior orbits provides an incredibly unique insight into the geology of the asteroid belt and the nature of mass transfer between the belt and the inner solar system. The Desert Fireball Network (DFN) (Bland et al. 2012; Howie et al. 2017) is one of many organizations (Oberst et al. 1998; Spurný et al. 2006; Trigo-Rodríguez et al. 2006; Olech et al. 2006; Colas et al. 2015; Devillepoix et al. 2020) that makes this possible.

However, collecting meteorites in Antarctica is a physically stressful and dangerous business. But what if there was a "treasure map" showing the most likely places to find meteorites in Antarctica, for researchers to direct where to search? Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands used artificial intelligence to create a type of treasure map to identify areas where meteorites can be found at high probability. Veronica Tollenaar, who led the study published in Science Advances, said: "Through our analysis, we learned that satellite observations of temperature, ice flow rate, surface cover and geometry are good indications of the location of meteorites-rich areas. We expect the treasure map to be 80% accurate."