Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over 4 billion years could only have delivered a tiny fraction of Earth’s ...
For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...
A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...
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NASA scientist digs into 50 year old moon dust and uncovers a shock
When a NASA scientist finally cracked open a cache of 50-year-old lunar soil, the expectation was to refine old models, not ...
A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...
An international team of researchers, including members from the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP, Université Paris Cité, CNRS) and the Natural History Museum of Vienna (NHMW) in Austria, ...
The meteorite is the only lunar sample that we have from this forgotten period of the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...
Image of the Northest Africa 16286 sample obtained using a scanning electron microscope. These are what’s referred to as “backscattered electron images”, and the different shades of grey highlight ...
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