Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is tirelessly exploring Mars and recently overcame a rocky challenge to collect another valuable ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families ... Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

The capabilities of the Zhurong rover have allowed scientists to understand the geologic history of Mars in an entirely ... generating a three-dimensional map of structures deep below, which ...

On Earth, the geologic record of oceans is distinctive ... orbital images of valley networks and mineral maps that the surface of Noachian Mars had surface water. However, there is less evidence ...

The discovery represents a major advance in the knowledge of Mars' geological and possible habitable ... telescope will reveal the most colorful map of the universe ...

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, highlighting the possibility of microbial life ...