Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Published in Science Advances, the study takes a fresh approach by analyzing iron meteorites—remnants of the metallic ... the team found that many inner solar system planetesimals retained ...

Meteorites are the pieces of asteroids and other natural ... Any differences from the CI chondrite composition would have happened through the same processes that formed asteroids and planets. CI ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

The event’s largest pavilion presented by the host country comprises 560 wooden planks for the interior and exterior walls, and a meteorite from Mars will be displayed there. The pavilion will also ...

The space rock, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, is an "ordinary" chondrite, a stony meteorite containing small mineral granules, with features that help explain why it broke apart as it hit ...

Named Charlottetown meteorite, the space rock is an ordinary chondrite with features that help to explain why it broke apart as it hit the ground. “As the first and only meteorite from the province of ...

A Canadian homeowner's doorbell camera video of a meteorite crashing down to Earth right outside his front door could be the first time the phenomenon has been recorded, complete with audio of the ...

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 ...