Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorite chemistry shows which primitive asteroids may hold usable metals or water, and why most space mining remains difficult. ...

French astronaut Sophie Adenot made history this month as the first French woman to perform a spacewalk. Back on Earth, space ...

Written by the United States National Museum curator of meteorites, Edward P. Henderson, the article summarizes the collection of meteorites and the type of research done on them. siris_sic_3195 ...

A team of scientists from various institutions including the Universities Space Research Association have determined that a newly discovered martian meteorite is 1.27 billion years old, and it ...