When a vending-machine-sized spacecraft hit Dimorphos in 2022, planetary defense experts anticipated an easy test of kinetic ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...

In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

President Trump on Tuesday said there would be no exceptions, no changes, and no extensions to his August 1, 2025 deadline ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have already driven up some prices, but they have not yet produced the overall inflation ...

The Tellus Science Museum announced last week that it acquired a piece of the meteorite, which created a visible fireball ...