Meteorite found in Finland reveals unprecedented phosphorus levels, one of the rarest in the solar system today ...

Chinese scientists working with just five grams of lunar soil from the moon’s far side have produced a cascade of findings ...

A meteorite that fell in Germany in 1724 contains a form of silica that conducts heat in a stable manner and baffles physicists.

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the Solar System: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling from dust and rock. They're ...

Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath of meteorite ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, they ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...