An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, ...

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our ...

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that ...

Earth and the Moon share a violent origin story. The Moon is thought to have formed after a large planetary body struck the ...

Researchers are drilling 500 metres into Spain's only internationally recognised meteorite crater, hoping to learn more about ...

Ancient Martian landscapes, glowing auroras, and stellar nurseries come together in this week’s PPOD collection, highlighting ...

The meteorite​ that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday ​landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod ...

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

A meteorite found in the Sahara is forcing scientists to rethink what kinds of worlds once circled the young sun. The rock, ...

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

A meteorite found in the Sahara Desert is giving scientists a rare look at a world that may no longer exist. By studying the ...

Earth’s earliest chapter is mostly gone. Rocks from the planet’s first few billion years have been eroded, buried, recycled, ...