Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" is also making a close pass, traveling at 19,260 miles per hour and reaching ...

Earth's largest gold reserves are not kept inside Fort Knox, the United States Bullion Depository. In fact, they are hidden ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them ... between Mars and Jupiter where irregularly shaped rocks left over from the formation of the solar system ...

Space rocks, or meteorites have been pelting our planet for millions of years. Most of those rocks simply ... up of meteorites that have landed on Earth over the years and the asteroids in our ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle ... clues about our planet's most voluminous layer.

Carbonaceous asteroids are all over our solar system, both in the main belt and closer to Earth. But very few of the carbon-rich rocks are actually ... are some of the most chemically primitive ...

Trevor Ireland receives funding from the Australian Research Council for research into the samples returned by the Hayabusa and Osiris-REx missions. He is a past President of the Meteoritical ...