Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

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

Now, researchers have connected 49 seismic events to impact craters, proving that meteorite strikes leave distinct seismic ...

The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...