A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...

Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

Earth is often described as a water world, but how that water arrived has never been settled. For years, the focus has rested ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

In the south east of Argentina’s Chaco province lies Campo del Cielo, a vast area marked by a meteorite shower that struck ...

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered ...

The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago ...