Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama There was DNA found in stardust. And now, a comet’s building blocks have been found in a meteorite. The placement of the material was intriguing. Apart from it being inside a meteorite, comets are usually formed in the outer reaches of our Solar System. For

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News Earth may already have been visited by an object from outside our solar system — a meteor that burned up in the planet’s atmosphere in 2014, astronomers claim. If confirmed, it would be the first known interstellar object to have entered the

Author: Nancy Shute / Source: Science News These are wondrous times for space exploration. Just when you think exploring the cosmos couldn’t possibly get more fun, another discovery delivers a new “oh wow” moment. Consider the asteroid Bennu. It’s an unprepossessing space rock that drew

Author: The Conversation / Source: The Next Web Earth is often in the firing line of fragments of asteroids and comets, most of which burn up tens of kilometers above our heads. But occasionally, something larger gets through. That’s what happened off Russia’s east coast on December 18 last

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings In October of 1883, a paper in the nation’s capital reported under the heading “Current Gossip” that “an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt” — a news item originally printed in Iowa and syndicated widely in