Scientists Find Organic Compounds on Fresh Meteorite
A meteorite that landed on a frozen lake in 2018 contains thousands of organic compounds that formed billions of years ago and could hold clues about the origins of life … Read more
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“Rainbow Meteorite” May Carry the Building Blocks of Life
A small, soft space rock smacked into Costa Rica on April 23, 2019. And it may have carried building blocks for life. The washing machine-sized clay fireball broke up before … Read more
Researchers Find Traces of Martian Oceans in Antarctic Meteorite
A bit of 4-billion-year-old rock blasted off the Martian surface about 15 million years ago and eventually landed in Antarctica, where explorers found it in 1984. In the decades since, … Read more
RNA in Spaaaaace… ?
A new study suggests that when some ancient meteorites crash-land on Earth, they bring a dash of extraterrestrial sugar with them. To be clear, this is not table sugar (sadly, … Read more