For five years, a French-Greek team visited nineteen museums and thirty-three archaeological sites to solve a riddle that had ...

Learn about the formation of the grains within many meteorites, emerging from collisions of planetary bodies in the early ...

Fine art by the masters, antiques from the Civil War and jewelry from Fabergé are on display at M.S. Rau, which opened in the ...

The latest discovery of nucleotides on an asteroid is making scientists rethink the story of where life all began ...

Garnet found in a 4.4-billion-year-old meteorite gives potential insight into the history, development and geological processes of Mars.

That's what happened in the desert of Western Australia, where geologists looking for deposits of the precious metal found something far rarer. What started with a routine survey took a strange turn ...

An ancient meteorite impact in Western Australia’s Goldfields may have redistributed gold while leaving behind rare geological evidence of one of Earth’s violent collisions. Researchers led by former ...

Much of modern astronomy revolves around the study of strange alien worlds—from the sun’s retinue of satellites to the thousands of known exoplanets orbiting other stars. But what about a world that ...

But by studying a huge cache of meteorites that have fallen to Earth over the years, scientists are finding intriguing clues ...

Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a handful are known as angrites—and at least one of them might be the remnant of ...

The meteorite that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod Bay," NASA researchers say. Initially reported as a meteor that exploded about ...

After a sonic boom from a meteor shook houses across the Northeast early Saturday afternoon, NASA said Sunday the meteorite landed in Cape Cod Bay. “This was a daytime bolide that produced a meteorite ...