An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

Microscopic structures created in the lab. Credit: Sean McMahon

Solving fossil mystery could aid quest for ancient life on Mars

Murchison meteorite

Sugar delivered to Earth from space

Maps of the Siljan impact structure and study locations. a Map of Sweden with the Siljan area indicated. b Geological map of the Siljan impact structure with locations of the cored boreholes and the quarry sampled for mineral coatings indicated, along with the sedimentary units in the crater depression, towns, lakes (white) and roads (black lines). Gas compositions exist from boreholes VM2 and VM5 (located adjacent to VM2). Credit: Nature Communications, 2019

Europe’s largest meteorite crater home to deep ancient life

In this handout image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, a color image from NASA’s Curiosity rover’s Mast Camera shows part of the wall of Gale Crater, the location on Mars where the rover landed August 5, 2012 on Mars. Credit: NASA via Getty Images

Mars once had salt lakes similar to those on Earth

A world map that shows where similary platinum spikes have been discovered in the world. The latest discovery is at the Wonderkrater site in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Credit: Francis Thackeray/Wits University

New research supports hypothesis that asteroid contributed to mass extinction

Illustration of the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. Credit: (c) Don Davis, Southwest Research Institute

Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age

The Wedderburn meteorite. (Museums Victoria/CC BY 4.0)

Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral Never Before Seen in...

Picture taken at one of the sites inspected in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert. On this picture Professor Azua-Bustos and González-Silva are donning sterile suites and using sterile collecting materials in order to avoid the contamination of the sites studied. Credit: Margarita Azua

Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars

The 21 shocked and unshocked zircon crystals dated in this study were separated from this ~30 cubic centimeters of unconsolidated late Eocene sediment obtained from Ocean Drilling Project site 1073, hole A. Credit: Biren/ASU

Researchers study largest impact crater in the US, buried for 35...

An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible

Depictions of large asteroids striking Earth, which, during parts of its early history, would have had a much thicker atmosphere than it does today. Credits: NASA with modifications by Stephen Mojzsis

A new timeline of Earth’s cataclysmic past

Researchers searching for fossils kept finding tiny glassy spheres inside ancient clams. After more than a decade, testing suggests they are evidence of one or more undocumented meteorite impacts in Florida’s distant past. Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace

Cosmic pearls: Fossil clams in Florida contain evidence of ancient meteorite

Polar ice caps on Mars are a combination of water ice and frozen CO2. Like its gaseous form, frozen CO2 allows sunlight to penetrate while trapping heat. In the summer, this solid-state greenhouse effect creates pockets of warming under the ice, seen here as black dots in the ice.

A material way to make Mars habitable

A view from the “Kimberley” formation on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

Ice-squeezed aquifers might create marsquakes

laminar beds of sandstone

Site of biggest ever meteorite collision in the UK discovered

The comet 46P/Wirtanen on January 3, 2019.

A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of...

New research focuses on filamentous microbes that make their living in hot springs and catalyze the formation of travertine rock.

‘Fettuccine’ may be most obvious sign of life on Mars, researchers...

The L6 ordinary chondrite El Médano 128, a 556 g meteorite recovered in the Atacama Desert. Photo courtesy CCJ-CNRS, P. Groscaux.

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest...

The retreat of Mars' polar cap of frozen carbon dioxide during the spring and summer generates winds that drive the largest movements of sand dunes observed on the red planet.

On Mars, sands shift to a different drum

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