Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent ...

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

New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

To find answers, the researchers turned to iron meteorites — remnants ... to be the initial form of Earth and other planets in the solar system, developing around 4.6 billion years ago as dust ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...

Past analyses of meteorites found on Earth also showed they contain such amino acids, but those may have come from Earth because the meteorites were exposed to the planet's soil and atmosphere ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

Understanding how life as we know it came to exist, is something that scientists and researchers have long been examining by looking at the geological evidence we have left on Earth. A key place to ...

Earth and Mars contain significantly fewer MVEs than primitive meteorites (chondrites), raising ... blocks -- to uncover new insights. "We found conclusive evidence that first-generation ...