Planetary Geologist R. Scott Harris, working under the auspices of UGA, analyzed fragments of the meteorite with an electron ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

It's another meteoric rise for what's called the largest piece of Mars on Earth. The 54-pound rock fetched nearly $5.3 ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending.

The word inertia has two different definitions, even though they really are the same. The first is a tendency to do nothing ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the ...