Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Most of the fragments have a lumpy appearance (the "chondrules"), with colours ranging from light brown to dark orange. Also visible are several pieces that appear dark grey, which indicate they ...

Chondrites are collections of tiny rounded particles — "chondrules" — that formed when melted minerals congealed and froze in the zero-g of deep space. These chondrules then became cemented together ...

I edited "Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk" published by Cambridge University Press, and proud namesake of Asteroid 5497 Sararussell.

Advert Subsequent research led by Sara Russell of the Natural History Museum in London found more information about this in the form of a lack of chondrules, little rounded grains of rock found in ...

They're made up of chondrules, or small, spherical grains of silicate minerals such as olivine and pyroxene. Herd believes the meteorite that struck Velaidum's property came from an asteroid belt ...

In addition to the remarkable minerals museum in Socorro, there is a free, unique museum in Albuquerque that displays a ...