By comparing lunar samples with samples of asteroids and comets ... Described by one of our meteorite curators as 'the most important meteorite to have fallen in 100 years', the Tissint Martian ...

The study of Martian geology and meteorites provides valuable insights into the history and evolution of Mars. Recent research has focused on understanding the planet's crust, its internal ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

My research focuses on understanding the evolution of planetary crusts through geochemical analyses of samples. I have worked with samples ranging from lunar rocks returned by the Apollo astronauts, ...

Micro- (as astronauts currently experience on board the International Space Station), Lunar, and Martian gravities are simulated using a device called Clinostat, which doesn't remove the gravitational ...

In February last year Christie’s held an online-only auction called Deep Impact: Martian Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites. The auction “shattered records” totalling $4,351,750 (£3,227,801 ...

It all depends on who you ask. Current understanding of Mars' evolution is based on spacecraft measurements and meteorite analysis. Those meteorites were ejected from Mars and traversed space ...

A study led by ETH Zurich, a public university in Switzerland, and England’s Imperial College London has unveiled that the Red Planet is bombarded by meteorites nearly every day. The study estimated ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...