On October 20, 2020, a robot carefully scooped up 121.6 grams of the most expensive dirt in the solar system.That robot, a ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

When scientists cracked open the first grains from asteroid Bennu, they expected a time capsule of rock and dust. What they ...

One meteorite may hold the answers space agencies have been chasing, answers that could unlock mining in deep space.

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Instead of searching for a single molecule or structure that proves the presence of biology, researchers attempted to classify how likely mixtures of compounds preserved in rocks and meteorites were ...