In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover extracted a rock core from the edge of Neretva Vallis, a river valley cut into the ...

The largest-known piece of Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction on Wednesday and could fetch as much as $4 million because of the rareness of an extraterrestrial item. Sotheby’s ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has photographed a peculiar rock formation that looks eerily like a turtle poking its head out from ...

Have you ever thought about a career in space science? Dr Helena Bates shares what it’s like to be a researcher of meteorites ...

Seismic activity on the Red Planet – called Marsquakes instead of earthquakes – has allowed scientists to study Mars' “lumpy” ...

Asteroids floating through our solar system are debris left over from when our planetary neighborhood formed 4.6 billion ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for ...

If a space rock is too large for deflection—or due to hit with relatively short notice— humanity would need to use a nuclear bomb to deflect or vaporize it.

“The Hunt for Space Rocks” chronicles JPLs pioneering work to understand asteroids and comets as part of NASA’s larger effort to protect our planet from cosmic marauders. From JPL’s effort ...

They get rid of weak space rocks long before those rocks ever hit the ground. “We’ve long suspected weak, carbonaceous material doesn’t survive atmospheric entry,” said Dr. Devillepoix.

A planetary geologist finds that the meteorite, which fell in June, came from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...