Allan Hills 84001 is a fragment of a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. Like other
Meteorite fragment ALH84001
ALH84001 on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Electron microscopy revealed chain structures resembling living organisms in meteorite fragment ALH84001
Astrobiology is a scientific field within the life and environmental sciences that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe by investigating its determini
Allan Hills 84001
…initial paper and the enormous scientific and public attention caused by it are considered turning points in the history of the developing science of astrobiology. ALH 84001 was found by Roberta Score (Laboratory Manager of the Antarctic Meteorite Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center) on the Allan Hills Far…
Asteroid(s) may have transported life to Earth.
Artist's impression of the extrasolar planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb orbiting its star 20,000 light-years from Earth; this planet was discovered with gravitational microlensing.
The NASA Kepler mission, launched in March 2009, searches for extrasolar planets.