Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

The Allende meteorite, which fell in 1969, has provided groundbreaking insights into the formation of the solar system and ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected ...

On Feb. 8, 1969, a massive meteorite rained a couple of tons of stones on the Mexican town of Allende, not far from the Texas ...

Dozens of people across Wyoming, Colorado and Utah saw a colorful fireball streak through the sky Thursday night. Experts say ...

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...

Researchers using neutron scanning technology have discovered a hidden reservoir of ancient water locked inside the Martian ...

A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected.