Although the Orgueil meteorite, named after the French town near where it fell in 1864, had been analyzed decades ago, Bada and his colleagues conducted a new study using sophisticated techniques ...

However flawed the science might be in Richard Hoover’s paper claiming signs of alien life in the Orgueil meteorite, I like his description of the stone’s blazing fall into southern France. At ...

A meteorite than landed on Earth nearly 150 years ago has been found to contain microscopic shrapnel from a star that exploded about the time our solar system was born. IE 11 is not supported.

The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years, and the possibility of alien life. Show more In 1864 a strange type of rock fell from the sky above Orgueil in ...

The Orgueil meteorite crashed into France 150 years ago. It's over 4.5 billion years old...and it might carry a piece of an ancient supernova that was instrumental to the solar system's birth.

The latter type involves the explosion of a small but extremely dense white-dwarf star in a binary system, one in which two stars orbit each other. It should now be possible to determine which type of ...

An object that fell to Earth more than 136 years ago has revealed new clues about the origin of meteorites in space and new information about how life may have started on early Earth. The new study by ...

The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.

An object that fell to Earth more than 136 years ago has revealed new clues about the origin of meteorites in space and new information about how life may have started on early Earth. The new study… ...