Learn how a magnetic field may have helped shape the Solar System, embedding traces of ancient magnetism within a meteorite ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth. Contained within are hints about the very beginning of the solar system and how ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million ...

In 2011, a 320-gram Martian meteorite discovered in Sahara Desert revealed evidence that Mars once had water. Known as Black ...

Billions of years ago, Mars was hypothesized to have been a habitable world with flowing liquid water and the potential for ...

A slice of the rare angrite meteorite NWA 12774 shows olivine crystal (green), a mineral rich in magnesium. John Kashuba A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite found in the Sahara Desert could be evidence ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...

A meteorite that streaked over New York City and crashed into a New Jersey rooftop came from an asteroid that once had briny water beneath its surface. The rock may have a similar composition to those ...

A study of 75 meteorite falls has revealed how space rocks survive their violent passage through Earth’s atmosphere, showing ...