There's growing fascination with these naturally patterned dials that offer a touch of cosmic elegance and exclusivity ...

Due to a legal loophole, meteorites should, by default, belong to the finder. However, several archaeologists consider the cultural value of the Kaali meteorite significant enough that related ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

Namibia holds the keys to cosmic history with its meteorite craters - remnants of the universe's fiery ballet that shaped our planet. This article guides you to the most significant sites (the ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Anyone who has ever tried to purchase or sell a home will be familiar with the significance of a property's fair market value (FMV). FMV is the price that a property would sell for on the open ...

Now imagine how you will feel while doing so. I can tell you this much: I would be awfully embarrassed if I had to tell my friends about pieces of meteorite, moon rock, and constellations from 1969.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...