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'Pristine' meteorite contaminated with table salt upon crash landing on Earth
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Winchcombe meteorite was collected mere hours after it fell, but researchers have found that it...
Two entirely new minerals found in huge meteorite that fell on Somalia
Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoTwo new minerals were found in the meteorite. (Chris Herd) Image:Supplied Two new minerals which...
Minerals never before seen on Earth discovered in massive meteorite
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe "phenomenal" finding was something researchers accidentally uncovered while looking at a sample...
Museum Offering $25,000 Reward for Fragment of 'Incredibly Rare' Fireball That Flew Over Maine
People via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"Depending upon the type of meteorite this is, specimens could easily be worth their weight in...
A treasure trove of pristine asteroid samples is arriving at Earth this weekend
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAfter 7 years in deep space, a NASA spacecraft is nearly home again with a delivery of precious...
'Microdiamonds' discovered at French winery point to ancient meteor crater below the vines
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA photograph of a neat row of grapevines inside a circular depression that is actually an ancient...
4.5 billion-year-old asteroid could reveal the origins of life on Earth
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSamples of a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid that have travelled millions of miles to make it to Earth...
1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean...
Space via Yahoo News· 4 months agoSpace.com caught up with two leading scientists now engaged in extracting and analyzing samples of...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully delivers asteroid Bennu samples to Earth
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIt's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has...
NASA prepping for September arrival of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn artist's depiction of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from asteroid Bennu. An...