When a meteorite smashed into Mars 11 million years ago, debris landed on Earth as meteorites, giving an unparalleled look at ...
Using meteorites that were long ago chipped off the red planet around 11 million years ago and flung into space to eventually ...
Celestial Mystery Mysteries abound on the planet Mars — from the tantalizing traces of ancient riverbeds on its surface to ...
Meteorites from Mars are helping researchers better understand the geology of the Red Planet — and the formation of Earth.
Astronomers have long puzzled over the origins on Phobos and Demos, the red planet's strangely-shaped moons. Now they are ...
Mars, a planet often associated with a lifeless, dusty expanse, holds a puzzling amount of organic matter on its surface.
Mars has a clear structure in its mantel, and its crust includes distinct reservoirs, scientists have said. Those are the ...
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 ...
Researchers found that the temperature of atomic oxygen on Venus ranged from –120°C on the day side… ...