This high-status gift is one of the many ways meteoritic iron was revered by ancient civilizations. One of the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics for iron seems to be derived from a longer phrase ...

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water - a precious ...

NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

Understanding whether life once existed on Mars hinges on identifying the essential ... surface melted and interacted with the rock. “This meteorite contains unique evidence that it reacted ...

they brewed a sort of "Bennu tea," boiling a small amount of the rocks and dust in water and acids to extract organic compounds. Then they used mass spectrometry techniques to identify organic ...

The study of cometary and asteroid rocks via meteorites–small fragments of these bodies that ... Recent studies have centered ...

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify places on the moon's surface ...

A total lunar eclipse occurs this month. Venus transitions from evening to morning, while Mars and Jupiter dominate the late ...

Archaeologists have discovered iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or between 5,000 to 5,400 years old. This suggests that the process of extracting, smelting, ...

First meteorite ever found in P.E.I. arrived with a literal bang Bennu may look like one solid mass from afar, but it's not. Instead, it is loose collection of boulders, rocks, and gravel that all ...