Les météorites fascinent, d'abord parce qu'elles viennent de l'espace interplanétaire et qu'il nous est ainsi permis en ...
Man Kept a Rock He Thought Was ‘Gold’ for Years. Turns Out It Was a 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Treasure Even Rarer than Gold ...
A rare meteorite recovered from Alaska is prompting scientists to rethinkhow Earth got its water. New findings suggest our planet may have had the hydrogen needed to form water on its own, without ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A huge, heavy-looking rock is held by gloved hands in a museum. This rock turned out to be 'more valuable' and rarer than gold In ...
Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...
Scientists analysed lunar samples brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 6 mission and found rare meteorite fragments. This discovery could transform our understanding of mass transfer in the solar ...
La poussière ramenée de la face cachée de la Lune par la mission Chang'e-6 vient de livrer un secret inattendu : des fragments d'astéroïdes si rares qu'ils survivent rarement à l'entrée dans ...
China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating discovery. While poring over the returned lunar samples, which arrived on Earth in ...
Chinese scientists studying a 2-gram lunar soil sample from the Chang'e 6 mission have identified rare CI chondrite impact residues, providing new insights into mass transfer in the inner solar system ...
Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...
An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...