Primordial mini-moons may explain meteorite composition

VLT Study Reveals Dramatic Nickel Emission and CN Outgassing in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have conducted spectroscopic observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) as it

Solar Wind Ion Sputtering from Airless Planetary Bodies: New Insights into the Surface Binding Energies for Elements in Plagioclase Feldspars

Martian Organic Geochemistry: Contextualizing Recent Organic Molecule Discoveries in the Search for Life's Origins

This review article examines recent findings of organic molecules in martian meteorites and from Mars rover missions, contextualizing them w

NASA Discovers Sugars and Unique Compounds in Asteroid Bennu Samples

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered asteroid Bennu samples containing three significant discoveries: sugars essential for biology, a pre

Study: Early Earth's Asteroid Impacts May Have Enabled Prebiotic Chemistry

A new study published in AGU Advances examines how asteroid and planetesimal impacts during Earth's Hadean and Archean eons (4.6 to 3.5 bill

Chandrayaan-3 soil analysis links landing site to first known lunar meteorite

A new study reveals that the soil analyzed by Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover at the Shiv Shakti Station on the Moon's southern high-latitudes