Northwest Africa 12264, found in 2018, shows that the formation timings of planets beyond and inside the asteroid belt in the solar system did not differ much.

The 311-gram space rock was discovered in 2023 and is known as the Northwest Africa 16286 meteorite — and based on the decay ...

A group of scientists have published a paper describing two meteorites that were found in the Sahara Desert. They believe the ...

My third-grade geography class contained a section on studying deserts. I was fascinated by what I then thought was a lifeless Sahara, a massive stretch of land with nomadic inhabitants that was ...

Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, ...

A 2Bil-year-old Moon rock that fell in Africa bridges a billion-year gap in lunar samples and rewrites what we know about ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare meteorite, studied by UK scientists and unveiled at a major geochemistry ...