In southern Poland, iron objects made from a single meteorite were uncovered by archaeologists. The artifacts were discovered ...

R ecent research published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta reveals that water reached Earth during the late ...

Archaeologists in Poland have discovered Iron Age ornaments crafted from rare meteorite iron, revealing advanced metalworking ...

Jambon and his team discovered four iron pieces containing “heavenly metal,” as they called it, including two bracelets, an ankle ring and a pin. The pieces had varying levels of meteoritic iron, ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

Tim McCoy, right, and Cari Corrigan, meteorite researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, look at images of asteroid Bennu samples taken by a scanning electron microscope.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

The event’s largest pavilion presented by the host country comprises 560 wooden planks for the interior and exterior walls, and a meteorite from Mars will be ... A 29-centimeter-wide, ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest bacteria cannot survive. However, there are places where life thrives, from ...