Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...

Scientists have successfully used advanced CT scanning techniques to study one of themost famous Mars meteorites, NWA 7034, ...

Declared as garden décor, a massive object stopped at a Russian port turned out to be a rare space relic, triggering legal ...

A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than cubic, the process behind how these diamonds formed has, until now, ...

A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash ...

Dr. Laurence Garvie shows the new addition to the collection of minerals occupying the Interdisciplinary 4 building. This meteorite was broken and shared with a few other institutions to study. (Photo ...

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source - ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...

A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...