NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is set to pass near Earth this Saturday, at a distance only slightly farther than the moon. According to the Jet Propulsion Lab ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

The small town of Nordlingen is built on an asteroid crater, and its buildings are filled with diamonds created by the ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...

A team of scientists has found evidence of liquid water on Mars from 742 million years ago in a Martian meteorite known as ...

Asteroids not only represent a potential threat to humanity, they also offer great opportunities, especially for the future.