In 2011, a collector unknowingly purchased a small, dark meteorite in Morocco. Years later, scientists discovered that this unassuming rock contained something far more valuable than anyone had ...

Upheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

A SpaceX Starlink internet satellite fell from space in a blaze of glory overnight, lighting up the Midwest U.S. sky with a ...

The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 ...

Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...