Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

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

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

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

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

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

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

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

One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites ... Oct. 11, 2024 — A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station ...

Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently stand at 2.1%, or about 1 in 47, and could fall to ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...