The Lyrids are known for their fast and bright meteors. Though not as fast or as plentiful as the famous Perseids in August, ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

Before hitting the Earth, rocks traveling through space are generally referred to as asteroids, meteoroids or comets, depending on their size and composition. If a piece of one of these objects makes ...

Keen-eyed stargazers have spotted a meteor fly across Southern Queensland on Monday night, creating a light show seen from ...

Pinpointing when and where Earth’s hydrogen is an essential key to understanding how life arose on the planet. Without hydrogen, there’s no water, and without water, life can’t exist here. Ironically, ...

In 2020, researchers at France’s University of Lorraine announced evidence seen in a meteorite known as Sahara 97096 that supported an increasingly popular theory: Earth’s original water ...

The researchers found that the majority of the hydrogen contained within the meteorite was intrinsic, rather than being present due to contamination, suggesting that early Earth would have been ...

Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

The findings, which support the theory that the formation of habitable conditions on Earth did not rely on asteroids hitting the Earth ... Using a rare type of meteorite, known as an enstatite ...