A new analysis of iron meteorites suggests that nitrogen and phosphorus, two elements tied to life, may have been available ...

Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

New simulations suggest that various meteorite families may have formed in the same ancient ring near Jupiter.

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...

Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

"It’s incredible to think there was once a world this large." The post Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert ...

This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...

A one-pound rock pulled from the Sahara Desert in 2019 has just rewritten what scientists thought they knew about the early ...

A sonic boom shook Boston and the larger New England area with the force of 230 tons of TNT. The source came from outer space ...

A surprising discovery showed that the sonic boom off the coast of Massachusetts has triggered a viral sensation online. A ...