For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Patagonia’s ‘living rocks’ hold ancient bacterial biofilms, offering insights into early life and potential bioengineering ...

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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

Yihe Huang, lead author and U-M associate professor of earth and environmental ... minerals within the rocks are arranged in distinct layers. Their findings, published in Science Advances, suggest ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...