A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

In addition to the remarkable minerals museum in Socorro, there is a free, unique museum in Albuquerque that displays a ...

A newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth ...