The study reveals mechanisms preventing the accumulation of micrometeorites on Saturn's rings. These mechanisms imply that the rings could be as old as the Solar System itself. These results highlight ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

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But micrometeorites are not just shavings from meteorites – rather, they are the leftover dust that never formed into anything larger in the first place. In that sense, they are about the most ...

A program collecting extraterrestrial dust in Antarctica has gathered micrometeorites that are abnormally rich in carbon, most likely originating from cometary surfaces. Isotopic analysis of these ...

NASA is cooking up a plan that’s straight out of a sci-fi movie: mushroom houses. Forget about blasting tons of concrete and steel into space — the space agency is betting big on fungus to ...

Growing mushroom houses on the moon? NASA’s fungus-filled plan The space agency has out-of-this-world aims to grow space ‘hotels’ and other structures using mushrooms and lunar dust.

A new project is aiming to trace micrometeorites - tiny, melted remnants of space rocks that plummeted to Earth - back to their origin.

Chang’e-5 Finds Two Undiscovered Lunar Minerals Formed By Space Weathering The impact of tiny micrometeorites changes the nature of lunar rocks in ways never seen on Earth.

Two new minerals have been identified by researchers analysing moon soil samples collected by the Chang’e 5 mission.

Scientists are scouring the roofs of cathedrals for cosmic dust, micrometeorites, in order to study the chemistry of meteors.