Using microorganisms to mine meteorites could be an effective way to extract precious metals in space, scientists say. This ...

Bright flash and house-rattling boom was seen and heard over southeastern B.C., with footage showing the sky brightening ...

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Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by ...

A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead. Inside, ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

The newly found tektites in Brazil are named "geraisites," after the east coast Brazilian state of Minas Gerais where they were found. The geraisites are between 1 gram and 86 grams in mass and have ...

Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the Earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.