The whopping 25-kilogram Martian rock will be sold at a special natural history-themed auction at Sotheby's in New York this ...

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and also the closest planet to the Sun. Mercury orbits the Sun at an ...

New evidence for past water on Mars was revealed in research identifying over 15,000 kilometers of dry riverbeds on the ...

REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...

The largest-known piece of Mars to be found on Earth will be up for bid and could be sold for up to $4 million at auction.

The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) was the first person to hypothesize that the seeds of life are present ...

Every mystical quest features a journey riddled with challenges, a cast of colourful characters, and a treasure trove that unlocks more intrigue. The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

A dazzling meteor which lit up Western Australian skies on Mother's Day this year was the spark for Curtin University's ...

In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

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