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Life on the Red Planet: Meteorite from Mars shows evidence of “fossilized bacteria”

September 22, 2019 -

Assigned the dry designation of ALH-77005, the new meteorite displayed features and impressions that might have originated from microorganisms. These biosignatures offered additional evidence that ancient Mars might have supported alien life.

Researchers from the Hungarian Academy of Science (HAS) applied imaging technologies that were unavailable to NASA during the 1990s. They found tiny filaments that might have been made by fossilized Martian microorganisms.

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Researchers discover microscopic plant compound on meteorite fragment

February 05, 2016 - Researchers discover microscopic plant compound on meteorite fragment

Friday, February 05, 2016 by: David Gutierrez, staff writerTags: panspermia, meteorites, life forms

Did life's building blocks form in space?

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Fragments of a rare meteorite shower small Brazilian town

September 02, 2020 -

The biggest meteorite fragment found so far weighed 88 pounds and was estimated to be worth about $ 26,000 – equivalent to 10 years worth of the annual average wage in Santa Filomena, northeastern Brazil. It was found on August 27 and has attracted multiple bidders from around the world.

Locals have hailed the meteor shower as a “miracle,” calling the event the day when “money fell from the sky.” Others have said that it was sent by God as many of the bigger rocks ...

2 New minerals discovered inside meteorite that crashed to Earth

December 08, 2022 -

The minerals were found inside a single 2.5-ounce slab of rock taken from the space rock dubbed El Ali. They were named elaliite and elkinstantonite. The first mineral was named after the meteorite, while the second was named after scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton, an expert on meteors and space rocks.

Elkins-Tanton, the managing director of Arizona State University's Interplanetary Initiative, is also the lead researcher of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's ...

Mars ‘Black Beauty’ Meteorite Reveals Ancient Water, Challenging Mainstream Planetary Narratives

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A dark, unassuming rock found in the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert has become one of the most consequential scientific discoveries of our time. Known as 'Black Beauty,' this meteorite is a direct piece of Mars delivered to Earth, carrying within it secrets that fundamentally challenge the sterile, dead-planet narrative long promoted by mainstream institutions. Its analysis reveals not just traces, but substantial pockets of ancient water—a discovery that forces a reevaluation ...

Meteorite impact 29M years ago responsible for desert glass, geologists say

January 12, 2023 -

The material, also called Libyan desert glass, is widely spread across the sands of the Sahara Desert. It has even been used in several ancient jewelry pieces. Two such pieces – a scarab carved from desert glass and a piece of pectoral jewelry – were buried alongside King Tutankhamun's tomb.

Glass is often formed from silica sand that melts at high temperatures. When molten material cools too fast, the molecules are unable to arrange in order and structure similar to ...

Meteorite in Michigan may hold clues to origin of life on Earth

October 29, 2020 -

Researchers from the U.S., Canada, Germany and China were able to pick up and examine the rock before it got “contaminated” by microbes and other substances on the earth. This gave them the unique opportunity to study the rock in its pristine form. The researchers found that the rock was teeming with organic compounds thought to be key ingredients to life on Earth.Rare meteorite rich in organic compounds

In January 2018, a fiery meteor lit up the skies over the Midwest ...

Lunar meteorite hints at the moon having water, once upon a time

June 15, 2018 -

Furthermore, the researchers believe the moon may contain underground pockets of water ice. Astronauts might be able to use these water caches for drinking and spacecraft fuel.

The discovery was made by researchers from Tohoku University (Tohoku) in Japan. They were studying a lunar meteorite recovered from a northwestern African desert when they came across moganite.

Moganite is more or less a quartz with a different crystal structure. This silicon dioxide mineral ...

Winchombe meteorite that crashed on driveway found to contain the building blocks of life

January 25, 2023 -

An analysis of the meteorite, headed by Dr. Queenie Chan from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, has found organic compounds from space that may hold the secrets to the origin of life. (Related: Organic matter found in ancient meteorites may hold clues to understanding the birth of life on Earth.)

Results of the study was published on January 9 in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Chan and her team found a series ...

Ancient “desert glass” turns out to be from a 29-million-year-old meteorite

December 13, 2019 -

There was a meteor involved, but how?

The origins of LDG have always been a mystery. Found in the deserts of Libya and Western Egypt, the glass has been widely used as jewelry. In fact, it's the material ancient jewelers used to create Tutankhamun's pectoral scarab.

Scholars have long-standing debates on where LDG comes from. According to some, the glass is the result of a meteor outburst -- similar to that of the recent Chelyabinsk meteor. Others, however, proposed ...

Unexpected meteorite crash in Nicaragua highlights necessity of space program to protect from imminent danger

September 28, 2014 - Unexpected meteorite crash in Nicaragua highlights necessity of space program to protect from imminent danger

Sunday, September 28, 2014 by: David Gutierrez, staff writerTags: meteorite, Nicaragua, space program

City residents witnessed the explosion

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Unexpected meteorite crash in Nicaragua highlights necessity of space program to protect from imminent danger

September 28, 2014 - Unexpected meteorite crash in Nicaragua highlights necessity of space program to protect from imminent danger

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Harvard physicist wants to prove METEORITE that fell near Papua New Guinea is an ALIEN PROBE

March 31, 2023 -

Some say aliens use probes to examine eyes, noses, mouths and most organic parts of the human body. Others say probes might be used by aliens to make humans spawn alien-human hybrids.

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb, dubbed as the world's top alien hunter, is planning a $1.5 million-expedition to Papua New Guinea. He and his team plan to look for fragments of the CNEOS1 2014-01-08 meteorite, which landed just off the coast of the Pacific nation in 2014. There appears to be solid ...

Putin says Russia’s new hypersonic Oreshnik missile is like a meteorite that can reduce everything to dust

December 04, 2024 -

In comments to the Collective Security Treaty Organization summit in Kazakhstan, Putin said: “This is like a falling meteorite. We know from history where meteorites had fallen and what the consequences were. What lakes were formed.”

The hypersonic intermediate-range weapon has been making headlines after Russia used it to target a large weapons factory in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. It carries dozens of homing warheads and can hit targets while traveling at speeds ...

Ian Plimer’s “A Short History of Planet Earth” takes readers on a cosmic journey through Earth’s history

March 03, 2025 -

In "A Short History of Planet Earth," Ian Plimer takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the origins, evolution and future of planet Earth. This captivating exploration reveals how Earth – a seemingly ordinary rock in the vast cosmos – has been shaped by cosmic forces, violent events and the delicate balance that sustains life.

The story begins with the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago (bya), born from a rotating cloud ...

Violent collisions in space millions of years ago led to 100 times more meteorite impacts on Earth and unleashed space dust, studies suggest

August 01, 2020 -

Birger Schmitz of Lund University in Sweden is leading the research on the meteorites aged millions of years old. His team's findings, published in the journal Nature, show that the meteorites hold new and important evidence of Earth’s past.

“Many of these meteorites are as different from the meteorites that fall today as some of the animals that were living in that time are compared to today’s animals,” he said.Massive collisions in the asteroid belt increased ...

NASA has pictures of Martian “mushrooms” indicating proof of life, says controversial new research

August 10, 2019 -

The researchers pointed out features in 15 images that resembled algae, lichens, and mushrooms on Earth. They added that the shapes were impossible to replicate by non-living forces like geological movements.

“There are no geological or other abiogenic forces on Earth which can produce sedimentary structures, by the hundreds, which have mushroom shapes, stems, stalks, and shed what looks like spores on the surrounding surface,” claimed Pondicherry University researcher ...

New evidence helps astronomers determine when life could have existed on Mars

September 02, 2018 -

The paper was published by researchers from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, which is part of the University of Copenhagen (UC). The team has just finished studying a meteorite called "Black Beauty," which came from Mars and provided them with vital clues about Earth's nearby neighbor.

The Danish researchers reported that the surface of Mars started out as a worldwide ocean of molten rock during the formation of the ...

Scientists uncover “alien metals” from METEORITES in 3,000-year-old jewelry

February 16, 2024 -

The Treasure of Villena is a hoard of 59 gold-plated objects found in 1963 in southeastern Spain. It was discovered by a team led by archaeologist Jose Maria Soler while the team was excavating a dry river bed, the Rambla del Panadero, three miles north of the city of Villena.

Researchers examining the gold objects found meteoric iron in two pieces of jewelry in the set of artifacts that make up the hoard. The meteoric iron is an early-universe protoplanetary disk remnant ...