A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life ...

Samples from the asteroid Ryugu revealed all five genetic nucleobases, suggesting the building blocks for life existed in space and may have been delivered to early Earth.

A fireball meteor exploded over Europe and scattered fragments across a German town, with one meteorite smashing through the roof of a house.

A research team led by Sun Jian at Nanjing University has produced recoverable, millimeter-sized crystals of hexagonal diamond, a rare carbon polymorph that prior theoretical work has suggested could ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation.Psyche is the 10th-most massive asteroid in ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Geology proposes that the same asteroid strike that carved Arizona’s Meteor ...

After her initial test run, she cultured a regular sample, as well as the shocked sample so she could compare them side by ...

“These findings resolve the long-standing controversy on the existence of hexagonal diamond,” researchers said.

We saw how the saga of the man who would eclipse the Pen-Master began not in southern political arenas, but in the misty highlands of Kandy, Sri Lanka.