LifeTracer uses machine learning to spot subtle molecular patterns that separate biological chemistry from nonliving organics ...

A study of fragments from a Martian meteorite shows that the common practice of using magnets to identify meteorites can overwrite records of magnetic fields stored within the space rocks, Katherine ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a 2.9 billion year-old lunar meteorite. The meteorite, found in Africa in 2000, was examined by a group of scientists in the Earth and ...

Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and ...

Planetary geologist Amanda Ostwald studies Martian meteorites to understand what makes Mars different from — and similar to — planet Earth Naomi Greenberg In 2023, Dr. Ostwald hiked the entire ring of ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue and is one of ...

“It literally stood out,” NASA scientists said, describing the moment that cameras on Perseverance focused on a single, ...