In an Australian crater, researchers have unearthed a very rare type of zircon, a semi-precious stone typically used in jewelry. This mineral is known as ...

Earth is still collecting scars from space, and scientists are only now learning to read them properly. Newly mapped impact ...

A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...

Lonar Lake, the 50,000-year-old meteorite-impact crater in Buldhana district, has long drawn scientists and tourists for its rare ecology, high salini.

Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

Ariana Church made the extraordinary find with her seven-year-old sister, Leyla, mother Hayley, 39, and grandmother Marion, ...

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important. Most of it lies frozen in dark polar craters, and these icy spots could ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moon’s record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery.

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface ...