Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from are common. Astronomers have long had an explanation for this paradox, but ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix discuss the links of several other meteorite types to their source regions. Not all assignments are certain. “We are proud about how far we have come, but there is a ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix discuss the links of several other meteorite types to their source regions. Not all assignments are certain. "We are proud of how far we have come, but there is a long ...

To do this, they built a network of all-sky cameras across the globe, which they named the Global Fireball Observatory. "This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite ...

Caption A meteorite discovered in a Swedish quarry is unique and distinct from other meteorites. It appears to be a relic of a massive collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago that ...

All that said, the findings can’t confirm the terrestrial life theory beyond a doubt. There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy ...

Early Earth was hostile to the origin of life and not at all rich in organic compounds ... For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the ...

“But they do come from some of the same asteroid families.” Jenniskens and Devillepoix discuss the links of several other meteorite types to their source regions. Not all assignments are certain. “We ...