Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

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This doesn't devalue scientific research thus far, but we might need a more unified approach for cleaning important samples, ...

PHILADELPHIA – Brett Joseph Cohen was manning the only meteorite stall at the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society‘s annual trade show Sunday morning. Chunks of asteroids and lunar rocks glinted on his ...

Ballpoint pen ink found in Martian meteorites reveals hidden flaws and casts doubt on studies of the planet’s chemical ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

The IBeA group of the EHU-University of the Basque Country is proposing new measures to safeguard the purity of extraterrestrial samples. Several contaminants, including traces of ink, originating in ...

If you manage to win the rock lottery and find a meteorite, you should avoid touching it with your bare hands, and there's a ...

According to scientists, planet Earth is estimated to be 4.566 +/- 0.0002 billion years old, and the oldest evidence of life dates back to ~3.8 billion years, indicating that life ...