Meteorites, remnants of asteroids, are crucial for understanding our solar system’s history, acting as time capsules that preserve primordial material. Researchers have made a groundbreaking…
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An international study reveals that certain organic compounds (PAHs) found in the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite likely originated in the cold areas of space.…
A recent study reveals that icy celestial body micrometeorites may have brought nitrogen to Earth’s orbit in the solar system’s early days, contributing potentially to…
The Far-Flung Origin of Life’s Building Blocks: Researchers Uncover “Completely Unexpected” Findings
Many of Earth’s volatiles came from beyond Jupiter. Credit: Imperial College London/NASA Imperial College London researchers have discovered the probable distant origin of Earth’s volatile…
Tissint meteorite. Credit: Kurt Kracher, Natural History Museum Vienna Tissint, a Martian meteorite that plummeted to Earth and crash-landed in Morocco over 11 years ago,…
The researchers with their 16.7-pound find. White helmet: Maria Schönbächler. Green helmet: Maria Valdes. Black helmet: Ryoga Maeda. Orange helmet: Vinciane Debaille. Credit: Photo courtesy…
Dr. Queenie Chan. Credit: Royal Holloway, University of London New research has been published on the organic analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite which crashed landed…
Representation of the meteorite impact of December 24, 2021 (S1094b) on the planet Mars and the propagation of surface waves to the SEIS seismometer of…
Scientists are uncertain about the origins of life on Earth, but one hypothesis is that meteorites brought amino acids, the building blocks of life, to…
Artist’s impression of the meteorite impact of December 24, 2021, in the Amazonis Planitia region on Mars. Credit: © IPGP -CNES – N. Starter NASAEstablished…
Maximum tsunami wave amplitude following the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Credit: From Range et al. in AGU Advances, 2022 Sixty-six million years ago…
Lunar craters. Credit & Copyright: Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau Lunar glass shows Moon asteroid impacts mirrored on Earth Scientists have found asteroid impacts on the Moon…
NASA’s InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA’s InSight “Hears” Its First Meteoroid…
Evidence that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts has been uncovered in new research. New research has uncovered the strongest evidence yet that…
An investigation employing X-ray crystallography and Raman spectroscopy revealed that the carbon crystals were indeed unusually formed varieties of graphite. The strange carbon microcrystals have…
What do MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert…
A 3-gram (0.1 ounce) sample of the Hypatia stone. Researchers found a consistent pattern of 15 elements in the Hypatia stone. The pattern is completely…
Conceptual image of meteoroids delivering nucleobases to ancient Earth. The nucleobases are represented by structural diagrams with hydrogen atoms as white spheres, carbon as black,…
“Fingerprinting” Minerals To Better Understand How They Are Affected by Meteorite Collisions Researchers mimicked these extreme impacts in the lab and discovered new details about…
False-color image of impact recrystallized phosphate mineral in Chelyabinsk meteorite. Credit: Craig Walton A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout…