Water is essential in order for life to exist, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. […] ...

and his colleagues suspected the hydrogen might be attached to sulfur inside the meteorites. Using a technique known as X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy, the researchers looked for signs of ...

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

The key to their counterargument resides in a rare type of space rock called enstatite chondrite. The meteorite’s composition is particularly significant to planetary scientists because it’s ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

The Museum's fragment of Ivuna, an extremely rare form of chondrite meteorite 'It's really important now. Next year, NASA has a mission going to a very dark, primitive asteroid. And JAXA, the Japanese ...

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study hints.