The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China M illennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, ...

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah has hosted a research ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; ...

A Joplin native’s lifelong collection of minerals and rocks has been donated to t History & Mineral Museum, expanding the pieces that can be displayed and studied. Ava Gager Smith, a 1957 graduate of ...

There are many programs that detect near-Earth asteroids as part of countries' planetary defense strategies. In the case of ...

Deep within Greenland’s ice sheet, a chemical anomaly has sparked intense scientific debate, especially after researchers ...

The 4-Billion-Year Journey of Earth’s Most Precious Metal The Cosmic Birth of Gold Gold — one of humanity’s oldest obsessions — is far more than a shining metal. Its story begins not on Earth, but in ...

The town of Nördlingen, dating back to the Middle Ages, is uniquely situated within the crater of an asteroid that collided ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate.

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.