A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

While meteorites are space rocks that crash land on Earth after traveling through the heavens for millions, and possibly ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

Every day, about 48.5 tonnes of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the ocean are never recovered. But ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

Only 69 meteorites have been found and registered in the country, and this was the first recorded in Prince Edward Island, according to the Meteoritical Society, an organization that records all ...

Experts from the University of Alberta believe this is the first time audio of a meteorite fall is recorded. The American Meteor Society received at least 170 eyewitness reports of the falling ...

The Dynamic Earth National Careers Week Event returns for its second year on March 10-11, aiming to inspire young people to ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...