"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

Hunting for meteorites can be a high-octane race as private collectors and scientists go head-to-head, reveals a new book by ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new study reveals a surprising ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

When they returned, they were shocked to find light gray dust and black stones scattered in a star shape on the path. The force of a meteorite left a nearly one-inch divot in a brick. Credit ...

Booms like cannon fire were heard from Falkirk to Glasgow as a smoking trail shot across the sky, thundering into a quarry on ...

Only an expert evaluation can determine whether a find is ancient wrought iron or a meteorite. Until then, these items are treated as objects with potential cultural value and cannot simply be ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...