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Condensed Matter Jun 26, 2019

Low-temperature aqueous alteration of Martian zircon during the late Amazonian period

Many accounts at present support the presence of liquid water on Mars, where hydrated minerals testify to past processes of aqueous weathering in Martian meteorites such as NWA 7533/7034. Planetary scientists aim to estimate ...

Space Exploration Jun 26, 2019

Celebrating Asteroid Day with ESA and the world

Summer in the Northern hemisphere has arrived and with it the long, sunny days and hot, sticky nights.

Space Exploration Jun 26, 2019

Cyanide compounds discovered in meteorites may hold clues to the origin of life

Cyanide and carbon monoxide are both deadly poisons to humans, but compounds containing iron, cyanide, and carbon monoxide discovered in carbon-rich meteorites by a team of scientists at Boise State University and NASA may ...

Space Exploration Jun 25, 2019

Santorini volcano, a new terrestrial analogue of Mars

The Greek island of Santorini is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, but 3,600 years ago it suffered one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history. Among the material that was ...

Space Exploration Jun 25, 2019

Research resets timeline for life on Mars

Western researchers, leading an international team, have shown that the first 'real chance' of Mars developing life started early, 4.48 billion years ago, when giant, life-inhibiting meteorites stopped striking the Red Planet. ...

Astronomy Jun 18, 2019

Closer look at supernova dust suggests there's more of it than previously assumed

A pair of researchers with the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry dust from a supernova have found evidence that suggests it is more abundant than thought. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, Jan Leitner ...

Space Exploration Jun 17, 2019

Scientists find sun's history buried in moon's crust

The Sun is why we're here. It's also why Martians or Venusians are not.

Earth Sciences Jun 10, 2019

Site of biggest ever meteorite collision in the UK discovered

Evidence for the ancient, 1.2 billion years old, meteorite strike, was first discovered in 2008 near Ullapool, NW Scotland by scientists from Oxford and Aberdeen Universities. The thickness and extent of the debris deposit ...

Space Exploration Jun 6, 2019

The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth of the solar system

April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France – it rained rocks.

Earth Sciences Jun 5, 2019

Building blocks of the Earth: Research team re-calculates distribution of volatile elements

Chemical analyses of meteorites allow for a better estimation of the chemical composition of the Earth and its potential building blocks. That is the result of a study conducted by a research team from the Institutes of Geology ...

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