If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be ...

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped kickstart life.

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

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

Famous Martian Meteorite Found Packed With Traces of 'Ancient Water' ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

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Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and ...

Researchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites that plummet through the Earth’s atmosphere come from only three different asteroid families, which are groups of space rocks that resulted ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...