Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

Tiny iron oxide grains found in lunar soil samples brought by the Chinese Chang’e-6 mission upend what was known about the Moon’s surface and magnetic properties, scientists revealed in a new study.

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

“It literally stood out,” NASA scientists said, describing the moment that cameras on Perseverance focused on a single, sculpted boulder on the rim of Jezero Crater. In almost four years of traversing ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

Aaron J. Cavosie has received funding from Australian Research Council and the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University. How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and ...