Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun. Those rocks originate from a small number of ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

Elon Musk has made a lot of wild statements, but this one might top them all: "I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact." ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above. The most ...