Meteorites
Catastrophic Impacts Made Life on Earth Possible
How did life on Earth originally develop from random organic compounds into living, evolving cells? It may have relied on…
Possible Huge Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Fireball
A half-ton meteorite -- presumably from the Russian fireball that broke up over Chelyabinsk in February -- was dragged up…
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Are We Martians? Chemist’s New Claim Sparks Debate
Are Earthlings really Martians ? Did life arise on Mars first and then journey on rocks to our planet and…
Russian Meteor Experienced Melting Before Slamming Into Earth: Study
A collision or "near miss" caused melting in the Chelyabinsk meteor before it slammed into Earth's atmosphere this February, causing…
Aerospace Students Shoot for the Stars and Space Flight Dreams
Rocket science university students from Puerto Rico pose for photo op with the Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket that will launch…
Space Debris: A Tale of Two Satellites
It’s sometimes tough being a satellite in Earth orbit these days. An interesting commentary came our way recently via NASA’s…
Citizen Scientists Hunt for Impact Craters in Persia
Citizen scientists have discovered planets beyond our Solar System and established morphological classifications for thousands of galaxies (e.g., the Planet Hunters and…
How Amateur Astronomers Can Help LADEE
You can help NASA’s upcoming lunar mission. NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is slated to lift off from…
Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts?
We love a good space debris mystery. Hey, who doesn't, right? Regular readers of Universe Today know that it’s a…
Claims of Tunguska Meteorite Fragments “Ridiculous,” Scientist Says
Last week, Russian researcher Andrei Zlobin announced that stony fragments collected from a riverbed in 1988 are "probably Tunguska meteorites,"…