Photograph of impact glass beads under binocular microscope separated from the Chang’e-5 lunar soils. The glass beads vary from black to brown in tens to hundreds of micrometer sizes. (Sen Hu/IGGCAS) ...

Aaron J. Cavosie has received funding from Australian Research Council and the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University. How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and ...

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled—and fascinated—by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

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Since their discovery 13 years ago, scientists have puzzled over the origin of tiny glass beads found inside ancient clam shells. New evidence suggests they’re microtektites—a byproduct of meteorite ...

A cross-section of a piece of the Allende meteorite. The beads of glass inside these meteorites are called chondrules. Scientists think they are bits of rock left over from the debris that was ...

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled–and fascinated–by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

Scientists have published an analysis laying out how the tiny beads of glass inside many meteorites came to be -- and what they can tell us about what happened in the early solar system. Ever since ...