Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

There are few conceptions of mining in the world beyond that which is carried out on Earth. Research has always been based ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Lonar Crater Lake is a rare natural wonder in Maharashtra, formed by a meteorite impact nearly 50,000 years ago. Known for ...

On Dec. 27, 1984, a Mars meteorite was found in Antarctica. The meteorite, known as Allan Hills 84001, was found in Allan ...

Short-lived radioisotopes such as aluminum-26 influenced early solar system heat, water retention and the formation of Earth-like rocky planets, according to meteorite analyses and models.

Ancient horsetail plants, surviving for 400 million years, are revealing Earth's climate history. Their unique water ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...