Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometres across ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

Scientists have long wondered why carbon-rich meteorites appear less affected by violent impacts than those lacking the stuff ...

China is allowing six nations, including the United States, to examine moon rocks on loan from the 2020 Chinese Chang'e-5 ...

Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less "shocked" than expected, missing the effects often seen in a ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

A Kobe University study has finally solved this decades-old puzzle. Researchers found that when meteorites are hit, organic ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

Scientists say the unusually shaped rock originated from "elsewhere" or could have been a meteorite that hit Mars.