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Amazing New Year’s Eve gift for fireball researchers
Curtin University’s Desert Fireball Network team has celebrated the New Year in style by successfully recovering a recently fallen meteorite…
Curtin scientists question impact history of the Moon
Curtin University researchers have cast doubt on a widely accepted method for dating some of the solar system’s most cataclysmic…
Curtin University in NASA’s orbit
NASA Media Release NASA and Curtin University, located in Perth, Western Australia, have signed an Affiliate Member statement with NASA’s…
Fungal Pathogens, Black Holes and Fireballs: Premier’s Science Awards finalists announced
Three Curtin University researchers have been named finalists in the 2015 Premier’s Science Awards. The awards recognise Western Australia’s scientific…
New app update helps people enjoy astronomical spectacles
The hunt for meteorites just became easier with the recently updated Fireballs in the Sky smartphone app. The original app…
Study concludes 4,500 km-long terrestrial impact crater chain never existed
A new study led by Curtin researchers shows that the five large meteorite impacts from the famous 4,500Â km-long North America…
Violent solar system history uncovered by WA meteorite
Curtin University planetary scientists have shed some light on the bombardment history of our solar system by studying a unique…
Australia’s deadly eruptions the reason for the first mass extinction
A Curtin University researcher has shown that ancient volcanic eruptions in Australia 510 million years ago significantly affected the climate,…
New app helps the hunt for Meteorites
Spotted a fireball in the sky? Capture it with a newly launched smartphone app and Curtin University researchers will be…
Meteorite impacts could preserve ancient environments
Researchers have discovered asteroid impacts might actually preserve ancient ecosystems, after finding complex organic material encased in material thrown out…