February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
... the increased pressure at the time of the Chelyabinsk meteorite impact In 2014, the authors of this article helped...These methods were used to simulate the trajectory of the Chelyabinsk meteorite 60 days prior to its fall. Its trajectory was simulated...
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...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... ancient Martian civilisation. A group of astronaut explorers learn that Mars was inhabited until the cataclysmic fall of a meteorite that forced the survivors to migrate. The evocation of a face in the photograph taken by the Viking I probe quickly...
May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
...’s scientific capability retains this hybrid structure. Core areas include astromaterials sample science – spanning Apollo samples, meteorites and returned samples from missions such as OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 – and research on the geology and...
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...
