Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

A meteorite that fell in Germany in 1724 contains a form of silica that conducts heat in a stable manner and baffles physicists.

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the Solar System: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling from dust and rock. They're ...

A new study has provided compelling evidence that life from Mars could have arrived on Earth by hitching a ride on debris ejected during asteroid impacts. The research, led by scientists at Johns ...

A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 ...

Chinese scientists create pure-phase hexagonal diamond, a rare carbon crystal that could rival traditional diamonds in strength.

Hundreds of glass fragments found in Brazil are traces of an ancient impact that scattered them millions of years ago, ...

A $35,000 Rolex, a fully assembled robot, and a suitcase packed with rat poison are just some of the unusual discoveries ...

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.