Unusual isotopic ratio in samples brought back by Chang'e-6 reveals clues about the early history of Earth's satellite ...

Tiny magnetic soil particles in Rajasthan reveal new clues about the iron-rich meteorite that struck the area thousands of years ago ...

The Ramgarh crater is located near Ramgarh village in Baran district, southeastern Rajasthan, and is widely believed to be ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment while floating in weightlessness. In a carefully controlled experiment on the ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute, and other institutions, have revised the decades-old ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...