Three iron age bracelets and a pin contain metal from a single meteorite that fell over southern Poland more than 2500 years ago, a new study reveals. The discoveries also indicate that the value of ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

We investigated the photocatalysis of a partially altered disulfide-olivine pairing sample under current Martian ... minerals can play in driving redox reactions in the recent past of Mars. The ...

Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater was just found in WA’s Pilbara region – exactly where geologists hoped it would be. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...

This finding challenges our current understanding of Mars as a perpetually cold, dry world. The team found more than 4,000 of these white rocks and pebbles scattered across the Martian surface.

A crewed mission to and from Mars may include an exciting array of enabling biotechnologies that leverage inherent mass, power, and volume advantages over traditional abiotic approaches. In this ...

According to scientists, Lake Salda is the only place on Earth that’s analogous to the Jezero Crater on Mars. It’s a fact that has piqued the interest in space scientists at a time when ...

Have you ever had the stellar experience of spotting a meteorite falling from the sky? It seems pretty impossible, right? After all, it doesn’t exactly happen every day. But it did happen again in ...

SpaceX has aborted the latest launch of Starship in what was set to be a crucial test of the Mars-bound rocket. The lift off of the 123-metre-tall rocket, which is the biggest rocket ever built ...

If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, we can turn to a surprising place: the human gut.

A cutting-edge space instrument has detected microbial fossils in Earth’s gypsum — offering hope that Mars rovers could one day find the same. If traces of life exist in Martian sulfate rocks, we may ...