A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

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

Now, researchers have connected 49 seismic events to impact craters, proving that meteorite strikes leave distinct seismic ...

The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

In 2011, a collector unknowingly purchased a small, dark meteorite in Morocco. Years later, scientists discovered that this ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The study's results were further supported by geochemical analysis of Martian meteorites, which provide clues about the planet's composition and thermal history. Notably, the southern highlands ...

“We’re quite certain in the scientific community that these types of meteorites come from broken pieces off of asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,” Herd said.

A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has been documented as likely the world's first audio recording of a meteorite crash. It came by chance from a doorbell camera ...