Washington, D.C. — In order to understand Earth’s earliest history–its formation from Solar System material into the present-day layering of metal core and mantle, and crust–scientists look to ...
Scientists at Rice University are analyzing fragments from a meteorite that blazed across the Houston sky on March 21, 2026, producing a fireball bright enough to trigger satellite lightning detectors ...
A focused-ion-beam scanning-electron microscope, capable of drilling a hole in a piece of dust, provided a nanoscopic look at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx.(Photo: Mari Cleven/UA Office of ...
The picture is an image of such a grain taken by a scanning electron microscope. This grain is silicon carbide (SiC). The scale bar is 1 micron, or one millionth of a meter (39.37 inches). The grain ...