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

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

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

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...