NASA has warned the chance has doubled that the asteroid hurtling towards Earth will make contact. The United States space ...

Researchers Claim There Is Are Several Undetected Iron Meteorites in Antarctica Using an Intriguing Method Researchers claim ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

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Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

Upheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

Shubin’s own research, and a lot of subsequent discovery, is based on such fossil-bearing rocks. The Antarctic is also rich in meteorites. Meteorites fall to Earth equally everywhere. But because of ...

The Bennu organic compounds all have been identified previously in meteorites that have landed on Earth. But there have been ...