A mineral grain from a meteorite preserved evidence that water was present on Mars 4.45 billion years ago, and it may have ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

The same methods can also work on other meteorites found on Earth, or in samples brought back from missions to other planets, moons and asteroids. "We have demonstrated a robust way to date alteration ...

Marissa Tremblay, an assistant professor in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Department, and Ryan Ickert, a ...

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

Bryson was the recent recipient of a 1.5-million-euro European Research Council five-year grant to study samples of ancient meteorites using a state-of-the-art magnetometer, now installed in the ...

The analysis of a sample from the asteroid Ryugu sparked excitement among scientists when signs of life were detected.