A two-pound space rock that smashed through the ceiling of a Hillsborough homeowner's bedroom in the summer of 2024 has been ...

Hillsborough meteorite reveals organic compounds, amino acids, and prebiotic molecules, offering clues to life's origins on ...

On January 2, 2019 at 9:26pm EST, China's Chang’E-4 probe did what no human or machine has ever done before, and landed on ...

A forensic analysis revealed that the meteorite is a rare CM-type carbonaceous chondrite, an ancient class of meteorites that ...

A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024 is a rare, primitive space rock containing evidence of ancient water.

A new study suggests rocket exhaust from future lunar missions could contaminate pristine ice deposits near the Moon's poles, ...

As humanity prepares for a new era of space exploration, NASA and other space agencies are planning ambitious missions to ...

The scientist has outlined the 'potentially devastating and irreversible long-term impacts' of unknown organisms in space ...

Scientists are calling for a lunar quarantine facility where samples from Mars, the Moon, and beyond would be examined before being brought to Earth. They warn that even a tiny alien microorganism ...

Scientists say the Moon could serve as Earth’s first biological shield by housing a secure facility for quarantining samples returned from space. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers propose turning a ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a “lunar biocontainment facility.” Reading time 3 minutes International ...