Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...

This artist’s concept compares the approximate size of Lucy’s next asteroid target, Donaldjohanson, to the smallest main belt asteroids previously visited by spacecraft — Dinkinesh, visited by Lucy in ...