December is an exciting month for those who like to look up, with a comet, a meteor shower, and a conjunction between the ...

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

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

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 ...

When a meteor flashes across the night sky, it’s more than a beautiful streak of light. It’s a delivery from deep space—an ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

LifeTracer, a computational framework, was developed to analyze mass spectrometry data, identifying molecular features that distinguish abiotic from biotic origins. Georgia Tech and NASA used advanced ...

According to the Hungarian Meteorite Society, we might have a chance to find meteorite pieces in our territory for the first ...

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

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

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

Four years into its trek across Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally come across what may be its first ...