NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

LifeTracer uses machine learning to spot subtle molecular patterns that separate biological chemistry from nonliving organics ...

Stumbling upon a meteorite might seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event, but it’s not as uncommon as you might think. What’s crucial, however, is knowing how to handle such a cosmic treasure to preserve ...

An Australian man spent years trying to crack open what he thought was a gold-rich rock-only to learn it was a rare meteorite ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Didn't catch the Leonid meteor shower Sunday night? The peak of the shower may be visible into early morning Tuesday.

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.

A full moon at its closest point to Earth: December opens this week with a full moon, dubbed the “Cold Moon,” that also ...