Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earthr. More specifically, where did ...

The type of meteorite that produces the fragments that littered Winchcombe was made of carbonaceous chondrite. These types of meteorites contain extremely old and largely untainted material from a ...

It challenges conventional thought of the "fragile" carbonaceous chondrite class it belongs to. This meteorite has captured people's imaginations since it shot through Earth's atmosphere in April ...

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

Known as the Alais meteorite, this was the first object from space in which scientists discovered organic chemicals. The space rock was classified as a group CI carbonaceous chondrite and is the ...

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

The researchers found that the majority of the hydrogen contained within the meteorite was intrinsic, rather than being ...