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 ...

Analysis of asteroid Bennu samples suggests life's building blocks formed in frozen outer Solar System, not warm asteroid ...

Orient Star begins 75th birthday celebration with a meteorite watch dial ...

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

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

Scientists suggest that the amino acids found on the asteroid Bennu did not require warm, liquid water to form, as previously assumed.

The Allende meteorite, which fell in 1969, has provided groundbreaking insights into the formation of the solar system and ...

A cluster of 4,500-year-old sites on the remote Kitsissut islands in north-west Greenland is changing how archaeologists picture the first people lived in the High Arctic. Rather than hugging the land ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

However, recent research on soil samples from the Chang'e 6 mission challenges this long-held assumption, suggesting that ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove ...