Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

One of the most well known meteorites of Mars contains water in an amount of 0.6 percent a tiny amount, but it can be imagined as a sliver of a fingernail, yet it is one great sliver that can alter ...

A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized. By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest ...

Before diving into the seven and half million stories hidden in the University of Arkansas Museum, visitors are asked to make ...

Hidden in a shipping container bound for the UK, the massive iron mass turned out to be far more than ornamental.

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

Scientists have successfully used advanced CT scanning techniques to study one of themost famous Mars meteorites, NWA 7034, ...

Building on this discovery, Chinese scientists have developed a new lunar crater chronology model. The model allows for ...

New tools unlock new discoveries in science. So when a new type of non-destructive technology becomes widely available, it's ...

Fireballs are bright meteors and can be yellow, blue, red, green and sometimes violet. Fast-moving meteors are frequently ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...