Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

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

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.

The key idea behind our framework is that life produces molecules with purpose, while nonliving chemistry does not. Cells ...

A trio of rock hunters have donated two fingernail-sized samples of the meteor that blazed across Nevada and California last month to the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab. The lab, which is currently ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu ...

When scientists finally cracked open the capsule from asteroid Bennu, they expected carbon, water-bearing minerals, and maybe ...

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

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