Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results suggest that without 'unmelted' asteroids, there may ...

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of ...

Decades-old radioactive glass found blanketing the ground after the first nuclear test bomb explosion is being used by scientists to examine theories about the Moon's formation some 4.5 billion years ...

A study published in Science Advances demonstrates, through experiments conducted at very high pressure and high temperature at the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris (IPGP), that volatile ...