The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and ...

By melting down ingredients to recreate how ancient space rocks formed, researchers have discovered more about the building ...

A tiny Bronze Age arrowhead from Switzerland, made from meteorite iron, suggests early communities utilized extraterrestrial ...

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

The sample is the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have ...

New work led by Carnegie’s Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System’s oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites. Their ...

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet’s sky. Iron-nickel meteorites are a common ...

A new study suggests Earth's supply of phosphorus and nitrogen came largely from the inner solar system, challenging ...

Scientists have studied a rare iron meteorite in detail, discovering what orbit its parent body occupied before crashing into Earth. It is the first iron meteorite for which such orbit has been ...