"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

The largest-known piece of Mars to be found on Earth will be up for bid and could be sold for up to $4 million at auction.

In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...

A large asteroid will pass close to Earth in July 2025. NASA and ISRO are closely monitoring its trajectory. The asteroid, ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a 2.35-billion-year-old lunar meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has unveiled fresh insights ...

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...