A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

While meteorites are space rocks that crash land on Earth after traveling through the heavens for millions, and possibly ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of asteroids that melted early in their history.

Only 69 meteorites have been found and registered in the country, and this was the first recorded in Prince Edward Island, according to the Meteoritical Society, an organization that records all ...

Where do shooting stars come from? It’s long been known that meteors are caused by meteorites striking Earth’s atmosphere, but their origin has puzzled scientists since ancient times.

Experts from the University of Alberta believe this is the first time audio of a meteorite fall is recorded. The American Meteor Society received at least 170 eyewitness reports of the falling ...

The Dynamic Earth National Careers Week Event returns for its second year on March 10-11, aiming to inspire young people to ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...