NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars.

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found a peculiar rock on Mars. Its composition suggests it may have originated from beyond our ...

Riches from outer space are pulling meteorite hunters into Morocco’s Sahara Desert, where a fast-growing trade in space rocks is changing remote communities and sparking intense races each time a ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

Scientists have uncovered new chemical clues that life existed on Earth more than 3.3 billion years ago—much earlier than many previous estimates. Even more surprising, they found evidence that oxygen ...

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide ...

Scientists suspect iron meteorites might be able to resist erosion on Mars, which may explain why some appear perched on flat ground rather than embedded in craters. In other cases, a crater may have ...

Recent exploration missions have hinted at the widespread presence of the magnetic iron-oxide mineral hematite in the Moon's ...