A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

While flying just a few thousand miles above the moon on April 6, Artemis II astronauts reported seeing a handful of bright, fleeting flashes of light on the lunar surface, leaving mission scientists ...

The mineral was discovered in Pakepake 005, the first lunar meteorite found in China. The 44-gram spherical stone, with a dark fusion crust formed during its passage through Earth's atmosphere, was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of a fragment of Ksar Ghilane 022, a meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 which authors of a new study suspect ...

BEIJING, 27 April (BelTA - China Daily) - Chinese scientists have identified a new mineral in the first lunar meteorite ever found in China, marking the 11th lunar mineral discovered worldwide. With ...

GUANGZHOU, 21 October (BelTA - China Daily) - Scientists studying lunar samples brought back by China's Chang'e 6 mission have identified rare meteorite relics that could reshape our understanding of ...

During their historic lunar flyby, astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission witnessed meteorites striking the rugged surface ...

Image of the Northest Africa 16286 sample obtained using a scanning electron microscope. These are what’s referred to as “backscattered electron images”, and the different shades of grey highlight ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...