A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...

Scientists analyzing the 'Black Beauty' meteorite have discovered a zircon grain that hints at hydrothermal systems on early ...

A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.

The team analyzed meteorites from a large space rock designated as NWA7034 or “Black Beauty.” While all Martian meteorites have clues about the planet’s geologic history, most of them are igneous ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

Mars was a frigid, dry, dead world, just like it is now. Something slammed into the unfortunate planet, sending debris into ...

The unlikely journey that brought the Lafayette Meteorite to Purdue University’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...