In 2024, Chang'e 6 made history by bringing 1,935.3 grams of lunar far-side samples back to Earth. These samples were ...

United Airlines 1093 from Denver to Los Angeles encountered the incident in the pre-dawn hours on Oct. 16 while flying at ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission discovered rare CI chondrite meteorite fragments on the Moon’s far side, revealing new clues about ...

It's the first confirmed debris of a type of meteorite known as Ivuna-type carbonaceous chondrite – or CI chondrite – ever to ...

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China M illennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical ...

The specimens in the Science History Institute's latest exhibit are spiky, striking and, in some cases, fluorescent. A few are toxic, and at least one is otherworldly. All of them are on permanent ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

New research suggests that this mystery platinum signature underneath the Greenland ice sheet may have originated from a ...

Ruth Hamilton woke up to find a hole in her ceiling, debris on her face and a 2.8-pound meteorite between her pillows One woman got the surprise — and scare — of a lifetime when she woke up to find a ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A giant ...