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They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.
The largest piece of Mars on Earth, weighing 54 pounds, is set to go on sale at Sotheby’s New York on July 16, with an expected price of between $2 million and $4 million. Collector Luca Calberi is ...
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going on sale and is set to become the most expensive space rock in the world. The 54lb ...
Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...
Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...
The world's oldest Martian meteorite has been traced to the precise crater where it originated. Named Black Beauty, it formed almost 4.5 billion years ago and adds to evidence the Red Planet was ...
Meteorites from a variety of sources have been discovered across Earth's surface for thousands of years, but Mars wasn't suggested as a possible source of this bombardment until the 1970s when ...
A Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth 12 years ago contains a "huge diversity" of organic compounds, including one that has never been seen on Mars before, a new study has found.
The Lafayette is a rare Martian meteorite. In 1931, an unusual stone stored in the geological collection of Purdue University was identified as a pristine example of a rare Martian meteorite - a ...
But in a study published on August 16 in the journal Science Advances, a team from the University of Alberta calculated that around half of the 10 known Martian meteorite subgroups here on Earth ...
Black Beauty has an origin story. The meteorite NWA 7034, weighing about the same as a can of soda, was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. But its true home was Mars. To fill out Black ...
Complex carbonaceous matter in Tissint martian meteorites give insights into the diversity of organic geochemistry on Mars. Science Advances, 2023; 9 (2) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add6439; ...