Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...
Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
It was Kelly’s father, who lives nearby, who prompted the couple to dredge up some samples for further inspection. Using a vacuum and magnet — which can attract the metals found in meteorites ...
He later visited their home to collect more samples. Herd confirmed that they originated from an “ordinary chondrite,” the most common type of meteorite which is comprised of nickel and iron ...
The pair reported what they found to the University of Alberta's Meteorite Reporting System and the curator, Chris Herd, examined samples of the debris to confirm its interstellar origins.
His examination determined that this was, indeed, a meteorite, likely originating from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Content continues below The collected samples of the ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...