Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

Two asteroids smashed into one another about 470 million years ago, spilling their cosmic guts out into the solar system. Today, scientists reported that they have found a new kind of meteorite which ...

The meteorites that bombarded Mars during the early days of the inner solar system may have carried enough water to create a 300-metre-deep ocean on the planet. Martin Bizzarro at the University of ...

The asteroid 2024 BX1’s trip toward Earth ended in a fireball Jan. 21, 2024. Soon after, experts rushed to locate pieces of the resulting meteorite. The fragments — about the size of a walnut — were ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Space rocks that fall to Earth are ancient time capsules, and scientists who merged two imaging ...