Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Published in Science Advances, the study takes a fresh approach by analyzing iron meteorites—remnants of the metallic ... the team found that many inner solar system planetesimals retained ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Meteorites are the pieces of asteroids and other natural ... Any differences from the CI chondrite composition would have happened through the same processes that formed asteroids and planets. CI ...

A meteorite hurtling at over 125 mph (201.17 km/h) narrowly avoided striking a Canadian homeowner, creating an extraordinary scene captured on video. The event, which took place in Charlottetown, ...

The space rock, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, is an "ordinary" chondrite, a stony meteorite containing small mineral granules, with features that help explain why it broke apart as it hit ...

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.

It’s classified as an “ordinary chondrite” — dubbed “ordinary” because they are common as far as meteorites go. But its origin is no less fascinating: “We’re quite certain in the scientific community ...

Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly, who live on Prince Edward Island, caught a meteorite hitting their property on their doorbell camera. Some say this could be the first video recording of a meteorite ...