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China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...
This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did ...
THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...
A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...
Add this to the list of "things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money": Someone forked over $5.3 million in a ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
A 54-pound meteorite from Mars sold for more than $5 million when it went up for auction on Wednesday at Sotheby's.
The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...
Scientists determined that the meteorite was likely blown off of the surface of the red planet by an asteroid impact, per the auction house. The impact was reportedly so intense that some of the ...
The meteorite is believed to have been blown off the surface of Mars by an asteroid strike before traveling 140 million miles ...