A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the ...

Now, researchers have connected 49 seismic events to impact craters, proving that meteorite strikes leave distinct seismic ...

The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wanaka overnight with a loud sonic boom.

The study's results were further supported by geochemical analysis of Martian meteorites, which provide clues about the planet's composition and thermal history. Notably, the southern highlands ...

Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly, who live on Prince Edward Island, caught a meteorite hitting their property on their doorbell camera. Some say this could be the first video recording of a meteorite ...

“We’re quite certain in the scientific community that these types of meteorites come from broken pieces off of asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,” Herd said.