Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate.

The Meteorite Event in Stardew Valley is a rare occurrence that can be triggered at night. For new players, randomly seeing a huge purple rock on their farm can be very exciting. This event ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

Raouf Rahimzadeh explained that days ago, a meteorite sample, along with several precious stones, was sent by Dr. Mohammadali Makkizadeh, one of the prominent professors of petrology, to the ...

Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less than 5% of meteorites found on Earth. An international team of scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary ...

That is the take-home message of two adventurous books about the people who hunt for, collect, research and trade in meteorites. In The Meteorite Hunters, journalist Joshua Howgego takes a broad ...

Got your head in the clouds? Well, that's exactly where I want you. Clouds are fascinating to watch as they float through the sky. But what is even more intriguing is that their appearance can ...

Without hydrogen, there’s no water, and without water, life can’t exist here. Ironically, researchers turned to a meteorite containing hydrogen to prove that such former bodies did not provide the H2 ...

Martian meteorite / @NHMW_Ludovic Ferrière Unlike other gases used to analyze planets, radon is produced directly in rocks by the decay of radium. Its study therefore allows the detection of certain ...