For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...
When a NASA scientist finally cracked open a cache of 50-year-old lunar soil, the expectation was to refine old models, not ...
A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...
An international team of researchers, including members from the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP, Université Paris Cité, CNRS) and the Natural History Museum of Vienna (NHMW) in Austria, ...
A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...
Image of the Northest Africa 16286 sample obtained using a scanning electron microscope. These are what’s referred to as “backscattered electron images”, and the different shades of grey highlight ...