meteorites

Collision with a Mars-Sized Body Delivered Carbon to Early Earth

About 4.6 billion years ago, meteorites and other ancient building blocks began to coalesce to form…

In 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover scooped up a handful of Martian soil and analyzed its contents to…

In a new paper [1] in Nature, Remco Hin at the University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues, examined…

A new analysis of comet ice and dust collected by Rosetta, a spacecraft launched by the European…

A group led by DCO Extreme Physics and Chemistry Community Member Jung-Fu Lin (University of Texas…

While investigating lighter element candidates, DCO Extreme Physics and Chemistry Community member…

In a new study published in Nature Geoscience, DCO scientist Rajdeep Dasgupta (Rice University, USA…

Deep Carbon Observatory scientists are interested in the origins of carbon on Earth, as well as how…

Earth’s formation is one of the most profound events in our history. Meteorites provide information…

Exactly how life on Earth began remains a burning scientific question. Many plausible hypotheses…