Meteorite Discovery: Key Building Block for Organic Molecules
Scientists from Japan and NASA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule that may have been used to build other organic…
Scientists from Japan and NASA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule that may have been used to build other organic…
Mineralogy points to large, water-rich parent asteroid for carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent…
Scientists from Japan and the USA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule that may have been used to build other…
Researchers give radar new abilities using optical data about meteors. It is thought that over 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of so-called interplanetary dust falls to…
A long time ago — roughly 4.5 billion years — our sun and solar system formed over the short time span of 200,000 years. That…
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann, geologist from the University of Freiburg’s Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, together with mineralogist Prof. Dr. Wolf Uwe Reimold from…
A meteorite that originated on Mars billions of years ago reveals details of ancient impact events on the red planet. Certain minerals from the Martian…
Donwilhelmsite is important for understanding the inner structure of the earth. A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in the lunar meteorite…
On the night of January 16, 2018, a fireball meteor streaked across the sky over the Midwest and Ontario before landing on a frozen lake…
During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a small rock that appeared coal black against the snow…
International research team solves theory of how diamonds formed inside protoplanets. Geoscientists from Goethe University have found the largest extraterrestrial diamonds ever discovered – a…
In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The…
It is generally accepted that the inner region of the early solar system was subject to an intense period of meteoric bombardment referred to as…
The Earth is the only planet known to have liquid water on its surface, a fundamental characteristic when it comes to explaining the emergence of…
Meteorite material presumed to be devoid of water because it formed in the dry inner Solar System appears to have contained sufficient hydrogen to have…
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)…
Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to study exploring magnetization preserved for billions of years in meteorite samples. X-ray experiments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)…
The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions — is really hard to analyze without some…