Brazilian scientists have discovered glassy fragments, known as tektites, revealing evidence of a massive extraterrestrial impact event that occurred 6.3 million years ago.

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The Museum of Geology at South Dakota Mines hosted its spring Rock and Fossil ID Day Saturday. Visitors ...

Planetary scientists have produced the first global map of small mare ridges on the Moon, adding new evidence that the lunar surface has been reshaped in geologically recent times by tectonic forces ...

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

The lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggested the moon had a strong magnetic field. A new analysis shows the opposite.

The discovery of the molecules was made with Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which examined a Martian rock named Cumberland. This is ...

That's because a fragment of it landed in the family driveway, where the Wilcocks saw it in the morning. They described it as if someone had thrown a piece of coal at the ground. It actually made a ...

Giant impacts on Earth’s surface can be cataclysmic events with far-reaching consequences. They can excavate massive craters ...