Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

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NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured Earth and moon images during a gravity-assist flyby, confirming instrument functionality and maintaining course for its 2029 encounter with asteroid Apophis.

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One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

A man searching for gold in Australia instead unearthed a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be 4.6 billion years old. This ...

David Hole thought he had found a giant gold nugget but what he discovered turned out to be even more astonishing ...

David Hole thought he had struck gold with his metal detector but what he really discovered was far rarer - but it would take ...