Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

Helium deposits resemble huge purple geysers, so they stand out to say the least. If you have the map upgrade, the Helium is ...

Scattered like confetti across the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, extraterrestrial time capsules containing clues to how the planets formed and the origins of life itself are waiting to be discovered ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

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Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Geologist Birger Schmitz doesn’t just look for ordinary rocks. The Lund University professor trots the globe in search of millions or billions of year-old dust from space. His travels have recently ...

A new study warns that 5,000 meteorites could be sinking beneath Antarctica's icy surface every year as a result of climate change, depriving scientists of vital information about our solar system.

The Field Museum in Chicago possesses four fossil meteorites, embedded in Ordovician limestone alongside fossilized cephalopod remains, representing a rare geological occurrence. These meteorites, ...

Three meteorites contain the molecular building blocks of DNA and its cousin RNA, scientists recently discovered. A subset of these building blocks had been detected in meteorites before, but the rest ...

Each year, Smithsonian scientists collect hundreds of meteorites from Antarctica that reveal details about the origins of Earth and our solar system. Erin Malsbury A meteorite in the process of being ...