Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...

Earth’s deep stores of water may have been locally sourced rather than trucked in from far-flung regions of the solar system. Earth is thought to have been born in an interplanetary desert, too close ...

Around 70 percent of meteorites on Earth are classified as either H or L chondrites. H chondrites are generally iron-heavy, while L chondrites are rich in the mineral olivine and have significantly ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event around ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Water may have recently flowed within meteorites, suggesting the asteroids they broke off from ...

Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the early solar system. A study by ...

Researchers have discovered that carbonaceous chondrites, a class of meteorites, incorporated hydrated minerals along with organic material from the protoplanetary disk before the formation of planets ...