The Chang’e-6 mission returned lunar samples from the Moon’s far side, which contain fragments of a rare type of meteorite that may have contributed water to both the Earth and the Moon. According to ...

Dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission reveals rare, water-rich CI chondrite meteorite fragments—found on the Moon for ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite ...

Scientists are decoding fragile meteorites to uncover which small asteroids could become future treasure troves for space ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

Mercury is a mysterious world. As the closest planet to the sun, it’s a hard-to-reach destination for space missions. So far, only two have made it to Mercury—NASA’s Mariner 10 and MESSENGER ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...

A new study published in Planet reveals a Micro-XRD method to quantitatively measure the ancient collision histories of ...

In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Credit: Kurosawa Kosuke Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe ...

A trio of rock hunters have donated two fingernail-sized samples of the meteor that blazed across Nevada and California last month to the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab. The lab, which is currently ...