Nestled in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, where winters are long and the people are hearty, sits a treasure trove that would make Indiana Jones rethink his career choices—the A.E. Seaman Mineral ...

REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

The biggest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth is going under the hammer — and it’s got collectors buzzing from London to ...

Midsummer stargazers in Indiana can enjoy the Buck Moon rising over the horizon, marking the shift of the season and a perfect time to watch meteors.

July's full moon coincides with the time during which the antlers of male deer, known as bucks, are growing after their ...

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The Oldest Material in the Smithsonian Institution Came From Outer Space Decades after the Allende Meteorite plunged to Earth, scientists still mine its fragments for clues to the cosmos ...