Russia's customs service says a 2.8-ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite was found in a shipping container, labeled as a garden ...

Hidden in a shipping container bound for the UK, the massive iron mass turned out to be far more than ornamental.

Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

Scientists are using robots to explore underground lava tunnels, offering a safer way to prepare for future human missions in ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...