Today, let's talk about the famous Mars meteorite ALH84001, a topic that's quite intriguing. Discovered in Antarctica in 1984, who could have predicted that this rock would later stir up such a storm?
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...
Are we all descendants of these 'Mars colonists'? The literature from the past decade is even more interesting, with ...
In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...
Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...
In this video, we explore the process of creating a ring from meteorite using a 60,000 psi waterjet cutter. The process begins with a rough slab of meteorite, cut into two concentric circles. After ...
The InSight lander registered the seismic waves of eight separate marsquakes as it traveled through the Red Planet’s mantle. Two of the events were the result of a pair of meteorite impacts that each ...
Mars isn’t the neatly layered world we once imagined — its mantle is filled with ancient, jagged fragments left over from colossal impacts billions of years ago. Seismic data from NASA’s InSight ...
On Mars, things are a lot more static. It’s a single-plate planet with incredibly slow mixing. When InSight peered into the ...
However, seismic anomalies detected on Mars by the InSight mission reveal that the mantle is far from smooth and contains ...
The rocks “very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,” acting ...
As with many big space stories, 3I/ATLAS is getting a fair share of attention as well as some more controversial theories ...