For many years, planetary scientists have believed that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history (OK, the time ...

Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

The discovery of a meteorite older than Earth in the UK is a chance to learn about the early solar system. The rock seems to have come from the protoplanetary disk that birthed the planets. The young ...

Ariana Church made the extraordinary find with her seven-year-old sister, Leyla, mother Hayley, 39, and grandmother Marion, ...

A nine-year-old on a beach found a meteorite 4.5 billion years old – older than Earth itself. Ariana Church made the ...

The Treasure of Villena has been studied for decades and mostly admired for its gold. Found near Alicante in 1963, the hoard contains dozens of finely.

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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 ...

A rare iron meteorite has been found in the Sahara Desert, providing scientists a unique glimpse into the cores of ancient ...

A NASA study shows that meteorites delivered only a small amount of water to Earth over the past four billion years.