Based at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, or ARES, ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

What if we could determine what material built our solar system, how old it is, and even the type of star it came from? Emilie Dunham, postdoctoral ...

One of the world's largest Mars meteorites departed the National Institute of Polar Research in Tachikawa, Tokyo, on March 26 ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

A "Mars rock" that will go on display at the World Expo in Osaka opening next month has left a Tokyo research facility for ...

The Martian meteorite set to go on public display at ... the Martian rock was discovered by a Japanese research expedition in Antarctica in 2000. Scientists estimate it broke off from Mars between ...