CI chondrites are the most water- and volatile-rich of meteorites, with compositions similar to space rocks like Ryugu and Bennu. They are very porous and 'wet', with up to 20 percent of their weight ...

By devoting itself to saving GFDL’s research once again, with both financial and political capital, the University has the ...

The Orionid Meteor Shower is famous for fast meteors with glittering wakes known as 'trains' that sometimes linger for ...

The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...

But climate change is disrupting this circular process. The build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has raised ...

A new study has revealed how phosphorus, a nutrient essential for photosynthesis, surged into ancient oceans and started ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids and planets, including the young Earth, then a hot, molten sphere likely ...