Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Published in Science Advances, the study takes a fresh approach by analyzing iron meteorites—remnants of the metallic ... the team found that many inner solar system planetesimals retained ...

Meteorite Contains Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars 742 Million Years Ago Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space.

Meteorites are the pieces of asteroids and other natural ... Any differences from the CI chondrite composition would have happened through the same processes that formed asteroids and planets. CI ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

The event’s largest pavilion presented by the host country comprises 560 wooden planks for the interior and exterior walls, and a meteorite from Mars will be displayed there. The pavilion will also ...

Jan. 17, 2025 — Astrophysicists have imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal-clear images show ... Jan. 16, 2025 — A research ...

The space rock, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, is an "ordinary" chondrite, a stony meteorite containing small mineral granules, with features that help explain why it broke apart as it hit ...

Named Charlottetown meteorite, the space rock is an ordinary chondrite with features that help to explain why it broke apart as it hit the ground. “As the first and only meteorite from the province of ...