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.

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

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

"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." ...

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

In July 2023, a meteorite hunter found a 54-pound rock in Niger. They sent it to the Shanghai Astronomy Museum for analysis and experts determined the rock, dubbed NWA 16788, had likely broken away ...

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

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

Measuring about 1,200 feet wide, 2005 VO5 belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that frequently cross ...

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

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

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