One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon, and in the last five ...

Scientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings have surpassed those expectations, and the latest one adds to the ...

Genge, M.J., Almeida, N., Van Ginneken, M., et al. (2024) Meteoritics & Planetary Science Rapid Colonization of a Space-Returned Ryugu Sample by Terrestrial Micro ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar ...

Scientists say that climate change has tripled the frequency of planetary waves linked to extreme summer weather. In the 1950s, there was one extreme weather event a year. Now, the Earth is ...

Founded in 1933, the group has now spread to 33 countries and publishes a record of all known meteorites, as well as Meteoritics and Planetary Science, a journal edited at the UA.

Science The World’s Oceans Are a ‘Ticking Time Bomb,’ Reaching Dangerous Acidification Levels Earlier Than Scientists Thought Ocean acidification has crossed “planetary boundaries” in ...

Fashion met science recently as an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate fashion merchandising and biochemistry students won the 2025 Best Innovation Award for its spacesuit design.

The planetary-science budget (which covers the other planets) would fall by nearly 32%. Money for heliophysics (the study of the Sun) would drop by 46%. Astrophysics faces a 66% chop.