We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

Around 3.4 billion years ago, when Mars was a warm, wet world, an asteroid several kilometers wide tore through its thin air and crashed into a shallow sea, leaving an expansive crater on the seafloor ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This high-resolution view of the asteroid Dimorphos was created by combining the final 10 ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

In one of the studies, researchers looked at some seismic data acquired by NASA's InSight Lander, which is currently out of commission, and found two massive asteroid impacts. These events occurred 97 ...

Researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology claim that analysis of Mars' composition supports the idea that it was originally formed in the asteroid belt, and then migrated to the inner solar ...

Potentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into the history of the Red Planet and the early solar system, new research suggests. When you purchase ...

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Major space missions in 2025 are reshaping exploration. Here's a detailed look at key NASA missions, global projects, and the ...

An asteroid discovered by The University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey has a one-in-75 chance of hitting Mars Jan. 30, scientists tracking it say. Catalina Sky Survey team member Andrea Boattini ...