A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

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

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

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study ...

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

This also means that the planet may have been habitable at some point in its history and could have supported microbial life.

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

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may ... which was a primitive type of space rock called a carbonaceous chondrite. It would have measured between 23 and 36 miles (37 ...

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

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

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 ...