Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

What FACTS ABOUT ROCKS do you know? They are abundant on earth, and yet little is known about them. These facts will increase your knowledge of the rocks.

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into ... a member of Fireballs Aotearoa (a citizen science group tracking meteorites), the meteorite has ...

A peaceful transition away from fossil fuels will require new global agreements on how to manage mineral resources ... The interior of Earth, the mantle, is solid rock. But it is hot enough ...