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 Believe an Asteroid Might Crash Into the Moon in 2032, a Once-in-5,000-Year Event A recently discovered 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." ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

Bitcoin can't ever experience the same type of problem. On that note, 16 Psyche, an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, is estimated to contain between $10 quintillion and $700 quintillion ...

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Sign in by ...

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 ...

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...

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

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 our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.