Meteorites
Dawn Spirals Down Closer to Vesta’s South Pole Impact Basin
[/caption] NASA's Dawn Asteroid Orbiter is now spiraling down ever closer to the protoplanet Vesta - since arriving on July…
First Ever Vesta Vistas from Orbit – in 2D and 3D
[/caption] The first ever Vesta Vista snapped from the protoplanets orbit has been transmitted back through 117 million miles of…
Dawn Closing in on Asteroid Vesta as Views Exceed Hubble
[/caption] A new world in our Solar System is about to be unveiled for the first time – the mysterious…
Tagish Lake Meteorite Delivers Different Composition
[/caption] We're all familiar with the hypothesis of panspermia - that life can be "seeded" from the contents of asteroids,…
NASA Researchers Find Brand New Mineral in Old Meteorite
[/caption] It’s a brand new mineral, and it’s from space. Researchers taking a new look at an old meteorite with…
Claim of Alien Life in Meteorites Needs Further Review
[/caption] A recent paper published by a NASA scientist claims the discovery evidence of fossil bacteria in a rare subclass…
Solar System’s Story Revealed in a Pea
[/caption] Feast your eyes on some of the solar system's earliest materials: the pink core comprises melilite, spinel and perovskite.…
Incoming! New Camera Network Tracks Fireballs
How often have you seen a meteor streak across the sky and wondered where it came from and what it…
Meteorites May Have Delivered First Ammonia for Life on Earth
Researchers have teased ammonia of a carbon-containing meteorite from Antarctica, and propose that meteorites may have delivered that essential ingredient…
Meteorites Illuminate Mystery of Chromium in Earth’s Core
It’s generally assumed that the Earth’s overall composition is similar to that of chondritic meteorites, the primitive, undifferentiated building blocks…