Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

Scientists used to believe that when a massive impact created the Moon, it also delivered a lot of water to Earth. However, this study challenges that idea. Instead, it suggests that Earth got its ...

New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

We checked in with the UNLV astrobiologist leading the specimen selection team for intel on what the samples so far reveal. To date, the only objects from Mars that humans possess are meteorites that ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

While all of the organic molecules found in the Bennu samples have been identified before in meteorites, Glavin said the ones ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.