Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories ...

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.

Scientists have confirmed that DNA found in meteorites includes all five nucleobases essential for life, strengthening ...

Scattered like confetti across the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, extraterrestrial time capsules containing clues to how the planets formed and the origins of life itself are waiting to be discovered ...

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Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

Each year, Smithsonian scientists collect hundreds of meteorites from Antarctica that reveal details about the origins of Earth and our solar system. Erin Malsbury A meteorite in the process of being ...

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Meteorites may have delivered water to Earth from the outer Solar System throughout its 4.5 billion years history—and may still be doing so. That’s the suggestion from a new paper published in Science ...