This comes after Nicola Fox of NASA's science mission directorate said: "Psyche is by far the largest [asteroid], and that's ...

Earthly rocks or products that are often mistaken for meteorites: metalliferous slags (mostly porous) sulphidic sedimentary nodules (made of pyrite or marcasite) Concretions of haematite or magnetite ...

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How core-mantle differentiation influenced the distribution of volatile elements on Earth. Imagine Earth's history as a ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...

Sierra Space continues to put its Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat designs through the wringer. After ...

Since direct sampling is impossible, scientists rely on indirect methods. Pallasites and metallic meteorites are rocks from differentiated asteroids—ones that also have a mantle and core.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

Very strangely, the C/N and 36 Ar/N ratios in the bulk silicate Earth (BSE, the whole Earth minus the metallic core) are far higher than those found in the meteorites that supposedly delivered ...