These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the 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 ...
Researchers initially believed the samples came from the Moon’s mantle. Testing iron, manganese, and zinc levels showed their ...
CI chondrites are the most water- and volatile-rich of meteorites, with compositions similar to space rocks like Ryugu and ...
The new additions include the first Philippine meteorite Pampanga, the fifth one Paitan, and the seventh and most recent ...
Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...
A meteor is a broken fragment of rock from space, such as debris from an asteroid collision, that enters Earth's atmosphere. They are typically visible at night as they make fast-moving streaks ...