Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment while floating in weightlessness. In a carefully controlled experiment on the ...

If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be ...

Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by ...

A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected.

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

On01, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

On February 9, 1913, hundreds of fireball meteors rained down on North America for no apparent reason. This strange event is ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

A few of the orange-colored carbonate globules found in ALH84001. This 1.6-ounce (46-gram) meteorite, a part of the Tissint meteorite that landed in Morocco in July 2011, fetched $43,750 at a public ...