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Hundreds of meteorites discovered in Antarctica

A team of scientists on a mission to Antarctica have braved the extremee conditions and have discovered a hoard of over 300 'space rocks'.

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Meteorites brought building blocks of life to earth

Scientists studying meteorites -- space rocks big enough to survive the tumble to earth, carrying chemicals that swirled in our solar system's primeval days -- announced they identified life's building blocks on carbonaceous chondrite samples.

In the Media by Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins

Scientists Publish Evidence of Asteroids with Earth-like Crust

A Research team reports two rare meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient asteroid have an outer layer or crust similar in composition to the crust of Earth's continents.

In the Media by Bob Ewing

New Notions of Earth's Origins Needed, Says Geochemist

“Our analyses indicate that a process must have occurred in the first 30 million years of our solar system which resulted in the uneven distribution of matter in the solar system.”

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Meteorite Shower of Cash at NY Auction

Collectors of heavenly bodies met in New York for Super Auction with mixed results. While two of the world's best known meteorites failed to pull their weight, a mailbox from Georgia emerged as a new star.

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Rare Mars meteorite for science

A Martian meteorite, an incredibly rare object, is given to the Natural History Museum, London, to help unravel the secrets of the Red Planet.

Mars meteorite chunks fall to Earth

Meteorite chunks from Mars fell over Morocco last summer — the first time in 50 years such an event has occurred, scientists confirmed Tuesday.

VIDEO: 'I carried Mars rock in hand luggage'

The Natural History Museum in London has acquired its largest Martian meteorite, which could hold new clues to life on Mars.

Huge asteroid was hit twice, scientists figure

The giant asteroid Vesta, the source of about one in 20 meteorites found on Earth, got clobbered not once but twice, and it has the scars to prove it.

Mars 'has life's building blocks'

New evidence from carbon in meteorites suggests that the basic building blocks of life are present on Mars, a study in Science journal says.