New tools unlock new discoveries in science. So when a new type of non-destructive technology becomes widely available, it's inevitable that planetary scientists will get their hands on it to test it ...

What will we see in the southern sky in 2026? A total eclipse of the moon (at a convenient time), a blue moon and a supermoon, the two brightest planets close together, and Jupiter disappearing behind ...

After years of shooting meteorites with a special gun owned by NASA, researchers highlighted challenges for a preferred method of planetary defense. By Katherine Kornei There’s probably a large space ...

Flux based on the 14 grains from both sample sets in the Late Cretaceous. From 106 kg. Post-LCPB. All OtC-V grains likely from unequilibrated ordinary chondrites. Pre-LCPB. From 217 kg. In essence, ...

Scientists detect small pockets of carbon dioxide-rich liquid water in a meteorite dating from the early solar system. By studying ancient meteorite fragments, scientists can gain important insights ...

Meteor showers are events seen from a planet's surface, where numerous meteors are seen within a short period of time radiating from roughly the same area of sky. Like most typical meteors streaking ...

Plenty of romantics have made a wish on a shooting star as it streaks across the night sky. Those brilliant beacons of hope are actually pieces of space debris burning up in Earth's atmosphere. And if ...

Figure 1: Summary of δ 13 C measurements of Mars. The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Driven by these three constraints and together with a newly identified mechanism ...

Or at least those we know about. And where are the known meteorite landing places on earth? These impact zones show where scientists have found meteorites, or the impact craters of meteorites, some ...

Despite evidence for liquid water at the surface of Mars during the Noachian epoch, the temperature of early aqueous environments has been impossible to establish, raising questions of whether the ...

Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites ...

Once upon a time, Mars had a magnetic field, just like Earth. Four billion years ago, it vanished, taking with it the planet's chances of evolving life as we know it. Now scientists have proposed a ...