91 results for "meteorites"

New research reveals that over 70% of meteorites that fall to Earth come from just three young asteroid families: Karin, Koronis, and Massalia. This finding significantly updates our understanding of…

In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have traced the origins of 200 Martian meteorites found on Earth to just five impact craters located in two volcanic regions of Mars—Tharsis and...

Recent research conducted by scientists from MIT and the University of Chicago has revealed that the Moon's extremely thin atmosphere, known as an exosphere, is primarily sustained by constant meteorite...

“An enduring mystery regarding the origin of life,” says NASA scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center about the inorganic transition to life, abiogenesis, “is how biology could have arisen...

The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species. The Mystery of...

Posted on Jul 2, 2018 in Astronomy, Science Most asteroids and meteorites originate from the splintering of a handful of minor planets formed during the infancy of our solar system,...

Astronomers have discovered pyrene, one of the largest carbon-based molecules ever detected in deep space, within the Taurus molecular cloud, offering crucial insights into the role of carbon in planet…

Recent studies of Apollo 16 lunar samples and meteorites from the moon’s far side have revealed new insights into the moon’s ancient impact history. These findings not only deepen our…

A new study from researchers at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration explores the possibility of using asteroid material to grow edible biomass for astronauts on long-duration space…

A growing body of research suggests that cosmic dust, originating from asteroid collisions and comet disintegration, may have played a crucial role in sparking the formation of life on Earth....

The terrifying asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs? It didn't just come from anywhere in the solar system—it was hurled at us from beyond Jupiter, a distance so vast that...

The mysterious origins of the asteroid responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs have long perplexed scientists, sparking debates about whether the deadly impactor was an asteroid, comet, or another celestial...

NASA researchers have found that amino acids, potential indicators of life, could survive near the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. Experiments indicate that these organic molecules...

A possible meteor streaked across the skies of New York City and New Jersey on Tuesday morning, causing a loud boom and shaking that startled residents. The event, captured in...

Lunar swirls are mysterious light-colored, sinuous features on the moon's surface that extend for hundreds of miles. These intriguing patterns, visible even from a backyard telescope, have defied easy explanation...

Recent analysis of seismic data from NASA's InSight mission has uncovered that Mars is subjected to far more meteorite impacts than previously thought. This discovery provides new insights into the...

A massive asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will pass by Earth today, NASA has warned. The 120m (394ft) asteroid, technically titled 2024 JZ, will travel...

Posted on Nov 17, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories include the Great Filter means we could die...

Posted on Aug 20, 2022 in Biology, Climate Change, Evolution, Extraterrestrial Life, Fermi Paradox, James Webb Space Telescope, Planet Earth, Science, Science News, Technology This weekend’s stories include There Could...

Posted on May 23, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, Origin of Life, Science, Space News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories...

Posted on Apr 14, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Early Universe, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, Hubble Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, NASA, Science News,...

Posted on Apr 30, 2022 in Science Phosphates, a key building block for life, was found to be generated in outer space and delivered to early Earth by meteorites or...

Today’s stories range from Meteorites could have brought all 5 genetic ‘letters’ of DNA to early Earth to Hubble discovers exoplanet unconventionally forming at an extreme distance to Did alien...

Today’s stories range from RNA “evolution” breakthrough offers new clues on the origins of life to Elon Musk could spawn the first post-humans to a whales’ tale of climate change...

“The Galaxy Report” brings you news of space and science that has the capacity to provide clues to the mystery of our existence and adds a much needed cosmic perspective...

Posted on Mar 10, 2022 in Extraterrestrial Life, Science Today’s stories range from China plans asteroid missions, space telescopes and a Moon base to how to talk to extraterrestrials to...

Posted on Dec 1, 2021 in Artificial Intelligence, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Cosmos, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Evolution, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, Hubble Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, quantum...

With stories ranging from the quest for the origin of the universe to the strange cloud in the Outer Solar System to the 60-year extraterrestrial SETI silence of our Milky...

Posted on Oct 5, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, NASA, Solar System The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has announced that NASA has its sights set on visiting a mysterious giant asteroid...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Aug 30, 2021 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Science “Our solar system was most likely formed in a giant molecular cloud together with a young stellar cluster, and one or more supernova...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus is unique in our Solar System — with plumes of water vapor and ice perpetually erupting, shooting jets hundreds of miles into space from its global subsurface...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalist about the discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of...

Can all life as we know it be traced back to the interstellar medium (ISM)? This March 2021, Michael McCarthy, an astrochemist and Acting Deputy Director of  Harvard Center for...

Posted on Mar 3, 2021 in Science What an amazing week: from an unknown Milky Way signal that may be a gravitational wave, mind-boggling cosmic string, or primordial black hole...

“The amazing thing about these observations, about this discovery, and about these molecules, is that no one had looked, or looked hard enough,” said Michael McCarthy, an astrochemist and Acting...

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (scheduled for launch on October 21) first tasks will be to learn why Mars lost so much water over its 4.5-billion-year history turning...

Posted on Feb 5, 2021 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

On September 6th 2017 astronomers at Hawaii’s PanStarr Observatory detected an object hurtling in from deep space, from the direction of Vega, a star 25 light-years away. The mystery object...

Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet occured on February 18th when NASA’s Perseverance rover — a robotic “scientist” weighing 2,260 pounds–parachuted through the tenuous Martian air, marking...

Posted on Dec 8, 2020 in Astronomy, Biology, Science, Solar System, Space “They are stained glass windows to the earliest time period of the solar system,” says Harold Connolly, a...

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Our Moon has yielded some long-held secrets in recent weeks, from possible evidence of ancient life on Venus to NASA’s new discovery...

“Any extraterrestrial organisms we find will be made of the same atoms we are,” observes Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics, Avi Loeb, about the recent detection of a potential biosignature in...

Posted on Aug 28, 2020 in Discovery, Evolution, Science If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water, underscoring the fact that Earth is the only planet...

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Science fiction writer and futurist, Arthur C Clarke once observed that our blue planet would have been more appropriately named “Ocean” rather...

Posted on Jul 28, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Space It’s been said that Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. “It’s there,” said astronaut Buzz...

Posted on Jun 22, 2020 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

In a recent blog, Harvard’s distinguished astronomer, Avi Loeb, celebrated the the launch of the space dog Laika onboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957, as a historic milestone, the...

Posted on May 1, 2020 in Astronomy, Science The researchers believe that an active nearside tectonic system on the moon was actually set in motion billions of years ago with...