Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and also the closest planet to the Sun. Mercury orbits the Sun at an ...

Chinese scientists believe samples found by Chang’e-6 mission answer central question in lunar science, but some in the West ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

From unexplained phenomena to baffling disappearances, follow the clues while discovering our country’s treasured protected ...