Tag: meteorites
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Sep 6, 2018Life’s phosphorus has its origins in meteorites from the outer Solar System. -
Sep 5, 2018An international team of researchers has proposed a new method to investigate the inner workings of supernovae explosions. -
Aug 14, 2018Scientists have found that 4.02 billion year old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada - the oldest rock formation known on Earth - probably formed at high temperatures and at a surprisingly shallow depth of the planet's nascent crust. -
Aug 6, 2018Oldest-ever igneous meteorite contains clues to planet building blocks. -
Aug 2, 2018Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. -
Feb 14, 2018A piece of a meteorite called Sayh al Uhaymir 008 (SaU008) will be carried on board NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission. -
Jan 18, 2018Earth began to receive water from space even before our planet had fully formed. -
Jan 15, 2018Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system’s asteroid belt for billions of years, share something else in common: the ingredients for life. -
Nov 16, 2017Asteroids key to understanding our Solar System's formation. -
Oct 3, 2017Life on Earth may have begun after meteorites splashed down and leached essential elements into warm little ponds.
