Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the ...

Understanding how life as we know it came to exist, is something that scientists and researchers have long been examining by looking at the geological evidence we have left on Earth. A key place to ...

A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not ...

When you find a strange looking rock in the desert, it’s likely worth having some experts take a proper look at it, just like in this case.

In 2011, a collector unknowingly purchased a small, dark meteorite in Morocco. Years later, scientists discovered that this ...

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

A Canadian homeowner's doorbell camera video of a meteorite crashing down to Earth right outside his front door could be the first time the phenomenon has been recorded, complete with audio of the ...

A meteorite crash, caught by a doorbell camera, has intrigued scientists and residents alike in Prince Edward Island. This rare event, documented last July, marks the island’s first meteorite ...

The star of the show, however, remains the dial. Both references utilise two forms of meteorite on the watch face, with the iron meteorite fragments revealing a pattern of “ribbon-like flecks” that ...

The DNA comes from human remains taken from a late iron age cemetery (circa 100BC—AD100) of the Durtriges tribe in Dorset. The researchers discovered a continuous line of descent of mtDNA ...