Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

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From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From ...

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

One meteorite may hold the answers space agencies have been chasing, answers that could unlock mining in deep space.

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

The discovery of exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b reveals how unusual other worlds can be. This exoplanet takes just 7.8 hours to ...

One came within inches of one person's head as they slept THOUSANDS of meteorites crash land on Earth every year but the vast majority of them go unnoticed. Most either drop in remote places or burn ...

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