Something was wrong with Martin Suttle’s micrometeorites. The Ph.D. student at Imperial College London had collected 76 tiny grains of space dust that had fallen to Earth near the white chalk hills of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: The Science Show has also been preoccupied in recent times with the ancient Earth, life ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese geologist Tetsuji Onoue, of Kagoshima University, after studying chert rock (a form of microcrystalline quartz) he’d taken from Ajiro Island off the southern coast of Honshu, ...

Space is very much the final frontier for humanity, at least as far as our current understanding of the universe takes us. Only a handful of countries and corporations on Earth have the hardware to ...

Each year, more than 3,000 tons of space dust fails to burn up in our planet’s atmosphere and falls instead to Earth’s surface. These micrometeorites are just a few microns in diameter, but scientists ...

More than 100 billion micrometeorites (MMs) fall to Earth each year. Until now, scientists believed that these particles could only be found in the cleanest environments, such as the Antarctic. In ...

Very old samples of small meteorites show that they could have reacted with carbon dioxide on their journey to Earth, researchers report. Previous work suggested the meteorites ran into oxygen, ...

ABOUT 4.6bn years ago, a spinning disc of gas and dust began to coalesce into balls of matter. The largest sphere, at the disc’s centre, collapsed under its own gravity to form the sun. Other clumps ...

Every year, roughly 10 particles of space dust land on each square meter of Earth’s surface. “That means that they are everywhere. They are on the streets. They are in your home. You may even have ...

It is estimated that anywhere from 37,000 to 78,000 tons of meteorites hit Earth’s surface each year. That might seem a bit high, but the vast majority of this figure is made up of micrometeorites, ...

More than 100 billion micrometeorites (MMs) fall to Earth each year. Until now, scientists have believed that these particles could only be found in the cleanest environments, such as the Antarctic.