"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

Such explosions occur on carbon-rich meteorites, but not on carbon-poor ones," said author Kosuke Kurosawa, an astrophysicist at Kobe University in Japan, in a press release.

For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

“Carbon-rich meteorites are some of the most chemically primitive materials we can study—they contain water, organic molecules and even amino acids,” said Patrick Shober, ...

The ultimate material, a composite of real iron meteorite and carbon steel, is known as non-stainless meteorite Damascus — and the overall “Mosaic Crossed Damascus Pattern” is stunning. In that way, ...

The Winchcombe meteorite is a rare type of carbon-rich rock called a carbonaceous chondrite and the first of its kind ever found in the U.K. Only about 4 to 5 percent of all meteorites found on ...

Results from early chemical analyses of the Winchcombe meteorite and 200 Mars-borne meteors reveal water and ancient amino acids. ... substances like methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and, ...

In addition to carbon, carbonaceous chondrite meteorites contain calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, or CAIs. These CAIs are the oldest known solids in the solar system, ...

They contain complex carbon-based molecules called amino acids, which are regarded as the “building blocks of life”. These meteorites are thought to have formed in the early solar system ...

Stony meteorites called chondrites, formed over 4 billion years ago, have given scientists a glimpse of the early Solar System. They are separated into multiple classes based on their chemical ...