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NASA and University Researchers Find a Clue to How Life Turned Left
The work also gave the strongest evidence to date that liquid water inside an asteroid leads to a strong preference of left-handed over right-handed forms of…
Caltech scientists find new primitive mineral in meteorite
More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still serving the scientific community as a rich source of information about the early stages of our solar…
Organics Probably Formed Easily in Early Solar System
Fred Ciesla, assistant professor in geophysical sciences at UChicago, simulated the dynamics of the solar nebula, the cloud of gas and dust from which the sun…
Paper announces discovery of 1 of earliest minerals formed in solar system
In the May-June issue of the journal American Mineralogist, a team of scientists announced the discovery of the new mineral krotite, one of the earliest…
Oldest objects in solar system indicate a turbulent beginning
The findings may lead to a greater understanding of how our solar system and possibly other solar systems formed and evolved. CAIs, roughly millimeter- to…
Proposed mission would return sample from asteroid 'time capsule'
“This asteroid is a time capsule from before the birth of our solar system,” said Bill Cutlip of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., one of…