New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, a rock smashed through the back windshield of an SUV parked in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, ...

A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident's ice cream, university officials ...

When scientists found one such meteorite embedded in the thick ice of Antarctica, they unlocked a time capsule carrying ...

Splitting water molecules takes more energy than calculations suggest, and is a key roadblock to cheap hydrogen fuel ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Researchers in Western Australia’s Pilbara region have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, pushing back the previous record by more than one billion years. The newly ...

Australian scientists have identified the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, a discovery that could transform our understanding of Earth’s early history and the origins of life ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, potentially affecting plate tectonics and creating conditions for life.