One of the world's largest Mars meteorites departed the National Institute of Polar Research in Tachikawa, Tokyo, on March 26 ...

An international team of researchers, including members from the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP, Université ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

NASA have scientists discovered an unusual rock formation on the surface of Mars which could provide ... or by the condensation of rock vaporized by a meteorite impact," Jones continued.

NASA’s Curiosity Martian rover finds organic-like, long-chain alkanes preserved in the planet’s mudstone Twelve years after ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed. Scientists have announced ...

Mars, also called the Red Planet, is one of the most familiar planets in our solar system – apart from Earth, of course! Mars has become a hot topic of conversation because of the idea of ...

Earth is battered by several meteorites every year. Most of them are remnants of a celestial body that exists in space right now in a different form, such as the Moon, Mars and other worlds. However, ...

So far, 75 meteorites have had their paths recorded well enough to trace their origins. Most of these meteorites came from the asteroid belt, where over a million asteroids orbit the sun.

The findings connect the orbits of 75 meteorites to their likely points of origin in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. This long-term effort brings us closer to mapping the geology of our ...

Mar. 24, 2025 — The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected. These long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive carbon atoms, could exhibit ...

The discovery suggests prebiotic chemistry may have advanced further on Mars than previously observed. The analysis revealed the presence of decane, undecane, and dodecane. Listen to Story These are ...