Meteors are more common than you might think. Here’s what happened with one in Houston – Houston Public Media
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki Meteorite hunter Roberto Vargas, of Connecticut, displays one of the meteorites he found in Sharon…
Possible meteorite crashes into Houston area home, officials say
A possible meteorite crashed into a Houston area house on Saturday night, tearing through the roof and two…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Extremophile Bacteria May Hitch Rides on Asteroid Fragments
Earlier work has demonstrated that an extremophile bacterium species called Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the radiation, cold, and…
Fungi on International Space Station Show Surprising Metal Extraction Skills
As human space exploration pushes farther from Earth, the need for sustainable ways to obtain local resources is…
Space station experiment shows microbes extract metals from meteorites
Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by extracting mineral resources from…
New Lunar Regolith Analysis Challenges Meteorite-Water Theory
Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over…
Australian man’s gold nugget turns out to be rare meteorite
An Australian man’s potential gold discovery has turned out to be something far rarer and more scientifically valuable:…
Moon-Forming Protoplanet Theia Originated from Inner Solar System, New Research Suggests
The Moon formed from a giant impact of the proto-Earth with the ancient protoplanet Theia. In a new…
NASA’s Perseverance rover spots unusual iron-nickel rock that could be a ‘visitor’ to Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered an unusual iron- and nickel-rich rock on Mars that scientists believe may be…
Perseverance rover spots mysterious ‘visitor from outer space’ rock on Mars surface after 4 years
NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on…
In a first, NASA’s Perseverance finds an exotic rock on Mars
NASA’s official logo (Image source: NASA) NASA’s Perseverance rover found an unusually shaped rock called “Phippsaksla” on top…