July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... they have the same origin as us (i.e., born by the same abiogenesis event), and they (or we) traversed interstellar space on meteorites. The second possibility is that they originate from a different abiogenesis event, and in this case there must...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
...-bearing bed’. However, as evidenced by recent lunar atmosphere studies, water vapour appeared not only in the aftermath of meteorite surface bombardment, but also due to heating by sunlight. Our work predicts the potential to collect water molecules...
15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
... in the universe, could theoretically have opposite chirality. Nonetheless, chiral molecules have intriguingly been found in meteorites on Earth and comets in our Solar System, prompting the suggestion that radiation in the interstellar medium...
03 October 2016
Martian soil helps boost its atmosphere with noble gases
...during the Viking mission and from analyses of Martian meteorites and has given the team data to work from...the first complete in situ benchmark against which to compare meteorite measurements." Using mass spectrometry to analyse chemistry in the ...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
...ocean. However our planet also bears the pock-marked scars of meteorites slamming into the ground and when these strike an ocean, such... the rim of the crater collapses inward after the meteorite smashes into the ocean. Water rushing back into crater...
02 March 2020
Method for sealing Soyuz leak patented by Russian rocket firm
...(0.08 inch) cavity appeared not to be the result of a tiny meteorite strike, but had the hallmark of a deliberate hole drilled by someone...or not. Whatever the cause, whether man-made or meteorite, RSC Energia, the prime developer and contractor of the...
