A rare meteorite recovered from Alaska is prompting scientists to rethinkhow Earth got its water. New findings suggest our ...

A small fragment of a rare meteorite from Morocco has entered the collection of the Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Earth ...

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

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets. Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from -- and why some are ...

It's hard enough to see a meteorite strike on Earth: Most of the bits of space debris that survive entry into the atmosphere plunge into the ocean, which covers about 70 percent of the planet. The ...

The origins of a 2-kg rocky meteoroid are traced back to the Oort cloud. This serendipitous discovery constrains the ratio between rocky and icy objects impacting Earth and originating in the Oort ...