"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less "shocked" than expected, missing the effects often seen in a ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

All that said, the findings can’t confirm the terrestrial life theory beyond a doubt. There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy ...

Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

Meteorites found sitting on the ground are exposed to ... the asteroid Ryugu provided pristine samples of another, similarly water-rich asteroid. Together these missions have let planetary ...