The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 has been forced into protective "safe mode" while journeying through deep ...

An Oxford study suggests Earth’s water may be native, challenging the idea that asteroids brought water to Earth after the ...

Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. As AFP ...

Having fallen on the eve of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the Allende meteorite may also be the world’s most comprehensively studied rock. For nearly a decade, planetary scientists had been ...

UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.

The Murchison meteorite fell only two months after the first manned landing on the moon in 1969, when researchers were ready to study moon rocks and eagerly trained their instruments on this other ...

It was the first successful commercial moon landing. The lander delivered 10 ... region on the near side of the moon formed by an asteroid impact. The payloads were delivered as part of NASA's ...

If an asteroid really threatened the Earth, what would a planetary defense mission look like? Even rendezvous and landing missions are relatively easy. A launch in December 2028 could bring a ...

New Zealand is the landing place for a growing number of meteorites, and Hawkes Bay is the latest focus. A fireball hurtled towards the ground last Wednesday night, and based on eyewitnesses and ...