Fox News is reporting that a NASA scientist has found fossil evidence of microbial life in meteorites. The story is
here. The paper published in the Journal of Cosmology is
here.We've been down this road before, with claims of fossil microorganisms in meteorites found in Antartica that were thought to have come from Mars. Those findings from a team led by David McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center are still quite controversial.
The new claims made were made by Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and are sure to shake things up a bit (a definite understatement if the study is found to be accurate). The Journal of Cosmology has some well credentialed people on board, and they have called for heavy peer review of the paper and its claims.
What is the take on the subject here at APS?