One day, we’ll bring samples home from Mars — but, until then, we have to make do with what we’ve got. Fortunately, we actually have some Martian material to work with, thanks to meteorites from Mars that crashed into Earth. Sure enough, scientists with the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography are […]
Hundreds of thousands of pristine meteorites are currently littered across, or just below, Antarctica’s icy surface. But most of these space rocks could be lost forever over the next few decades as they sink further into the ice due to rising temperatures, a new study suggests. That means we need to step up our efforts […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The icy plains of Antarctica are a magnet for meteorite hunters such as Maria Valdes, a research scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago. Some 1,000 space rocks are found in […]
Fragments of an asteroid that exploded over Germany on Jan. 21 and were recovered five days later have been confirmed to be a rare space rock type that could help shed light on Earth’s origins. As Space.com initially reported on Feb. 1, scientists suspected that the strange appearance of the meteorite fragments from the parent […]