Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled scientists since it was discovered in the 1970s.

Herd discovered that the sample was chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes Earth, and that it likely ...

This is the first time the sound of a meteorite hitting Earth has been recorded, the University of Alberta said.

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our moon. Its ...

Alinda, measuring an impressive 2.6 miles in diameter, is making its closest approach to Earth in over a decade. At a ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

The Tianwen-2 mission will see a spacecraft anchor down on the asteroid, which scientists believe ... for future missions to the Moon and Mars. For example, it will test advanced ...