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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

The bedrock is abundant with olivine, a mineral also found in Mars meteorites. Olivine can undergo serpentinization — a process that occurs when olivine interacts with water and heat — which on Earth ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...