Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...

The Black Beauty meteorite, also known as (NWA) 7034, was created out of rock fragments and minerals that accumulated over ...

Meteorite hunter Roberto Vargas tracks fireballs on the internet and then goes to see if he can find them. Usually I’m alerted that something has fallen or that people have seen a fireball through the ...

Everything on Earth and made on Earth is awash in microbial contamination, which persists through intense decontamination ...

A 4.45-billion-year-old grain of the mineral zircon in a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2011 indicates Mars may have been home to boiling hot hydrothermal systems similar to Earth ...

Hundreds of concerned scientists came together in Australia recently to discuss how we can save Antarctica in what's being ...

Martian zircon shows evidence of water 4.45 billion years ago Study uncovers early Mars hydrothermal systems linked to habitability Research suggests Mars once had life-supporting conditions ...

Its unusual appearance tipped off its finder, and it soon passed into the hands of a meteorite dealer in Morocco ... to probe the chemistry of the grain. They found trace amounts of iron, aluminum ...