When a meteorite smashed into Mars 11 million years ago, debris landed on Earth as meteorites, giving an unparalleled look at ...
An unexpected tool is giving us new insight into the fine structure of the outer layers of Mars. Using meteorites that were ...
“Martian meteorites are the only physical materials we have available from Mars,” said James Day from UC San Diego, who led ...
According to a theory, the hole can be a skylight into an underground lava tube which may be having a habitable zone ...
FINDING a planet that can host life like Earth does is like trying to find a grain of sand in an infinitely expanding ...
Astronomers have long puzzled over the origins on Phobos and Demos, the red planet's strangely-shaped moons. Now they are ...
Meteorites from Mars are helping researchers better understand the geology of the Red Planet — and the formation of Earth.
Celestial Mystery Mysteries abound on the planet Mars — from the tantalizing traces of ancient riverbeds on its surface to ...
The conventional wisdom about Mars’ small and misshapen moons, Phobos and Deimos, is that they were either created like Earth ...
The giant impact that formed the Moon may also have led to extrastrong mantle plumes that enabled the first subduction event, ...
The Chassigny meteorite in cross-polarized light. This meteorite is dominated by the mineral olivine. Grains are roughly 0.5 millimeters across. Credit: UC San Diego. Researchers at the Scripps ...
In the following excerpt from his book, Shindell looks back at the accomplishments of the past 20 years, when NASA’s plucky ...