On a scorching summer afternoon at Grootfontein, Namibia, a curious paradox greets every visitor to the Hoba meteorite.

We ignited a full-size anvil, hauled it 150 feet in the air, and dropped it straight onto a fire extinguisher. The moment it ...

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Zanskar uses AI to identify hidden geothermal systems—and claims it has found one that could fuel a power plant, the first ...

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 ...

Stargazing might seem daunting, but a new collaboration is making it easier for Brits to explore the night sky.

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

The Sahara is hiding a perfect 50-kilometre bullseye that can be seen only from space. What carved this giant eye into the ...

The full Cold Moon will grace the sky tonight. It is the third consecutive supermoon - October's Harvest Moon was followed by ...

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.

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...