Last year, in a quiet part of Nigeria near Agadez, someone found a rock in the desert. It turned out to be from Mars. Not ...

For over a century, the mysterious meteorite discovered in Oregon’s wilderness captivated explorers, historians, and ...

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To unravel this mystery, an international team of scientists launched a global ...

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

The movie 'Armageddon' is 27 years old, having been released in 1998. The story of this film tells how an asteroid threatened ...

S cientists have predicted and experimentally confirmed the existence of a material with “hybrid crystal-glass thermal properties.” Interestingly, this material – a specific form of silicon dioxide ...

Astronomers have found key organic molecules in a young star’s disk, V883 Orionis, suggesting that the origin of life in deep ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

If you're a fan of stargazing, make sure you have your eyes fixed on the skies this evening. Tonight (July 28) is the best ...

Get ready for a celestial treat. Two meteor showers, Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids, will peak on July 29-30 ...

This newborn planetary system is emerging around the young star HOPS-315, which sits some 1,300 light years away from Earth. Around such young stars, astronomers often see discs of gas and dust known ...