Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Udry's research aims to better understand the general evolution of Mars through meteorite and rover data analyses. Under the support of UNLV and NASA, she has studied rocks measured at the Martian ...

Dr. Peter Jenniskens traced meteorites back to their asteroid origins, helping to build a geologic map of the asteroid belt. Dr. Pascal Lee unveiled Nighthawk, a proposed Mars helicopter mission to ...

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact structure in central Sweden ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see from Earth might be drier than the near side. By Katrina Miller Katrina ...

“This has only started to change relatively recently, when measurements taken from lunar meteorites and Apollo samples showed that there is water trapped in the Moon’s minerals.” “Even then, I don’t ...

Bizarre, oddly shaped meteorites that crashed into a jungle in Costa Rica in 2019 were “mudballs” that travelled through space unscathed for nearly two million years, a new study has found.

Bizarre, oddly shaped meteorites that crashed into a jungle in Costa Rica in 2019 were “mudballs” that travelled through space unscathed for nearly two million years, a new study has found. The ...

A new study by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) contradicts corporate claims that a proposed hydrogen fuel facility would not harm observatories in Chile. Earlier this year, ESO alerted the ...

The Murchison meteorite. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons) It has even been possible to calculate how long ago that was. Exposure to cosmic rays alters the composition of a meteoroid, so the ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month. The full “pink moon” rises behind the Statue of Liberty in New York ...