The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going on sale and is set to become the most expensive space rock in the world. The 54lb ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and Jupiter, enhancing space exploration efforts.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

When the proposed asteroid was destroyed, any of its debris lingering closer to Mars would have transformed into Saturnlike rings. These rings were only temporary features — much like Phobos ...

The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red Planet. A shredded asteroid origin could help explain mysterious features of the small, odd-shaped moons ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

Quakes shake Mars all the time. But many of these temblors originate in outer space.. NASA's InSight lander recorded over 1,300 marsquakes between 2018 and 2022, including some monster temblors ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 mission, dispatching a spacecraft to gather samples from an asteroid near to Mars. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) anticipates that this mission will ...