asteroids

In a recent report, scientists unveiled remarkable news about Mars. They discovered that the most powerful quake ever on Mars didn't happen because of a crashing space rock. Instead, it was caused by the planet's own internal tectonic forces....

NASA is on a mission to explore a Greek-named asteroid called 16 Psyche that boasts enough gold to make every person on Earth a billionaire.

NASA landed the dusty samples from asteroid Bennu described as the "most dangerous known rock in the Solar System" in the West Desert of Utah state on Sunday. The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu...

Geologists have recently discovered two alien minerals unknown to Earth in a meteorite in Somalia. A small, 2.5 ounce (70-gram) fragment of the fifteen thousand kilogram fallen comet known as El Ali revealed the alien ore. Scientists stumbled upon the...

Astronomers have discovered a new asteroid, designated 2023 DW, and it presents a possible threat of collision with Earth. It was discovered by the European Space Agency in February 2023. Since then, the asteroid has been added to the Risk...

New research suggests that fire from the sky in the form of a small asteroid annihilated an ancient city near the Dead Sea now called Tall el-Hammam in the biblical city of Sodom located in the Jordan Valley 3,600...

A nearby supernova, a massive explosion in space, might have wrecked our solar system. Luckily, our sun was protected by a shield of molecular gas. Scientists came to this discovery by examining isotopes, which are different forms of elements,...

Much like NASA's upcoming DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, mission, to change the course of a heavenly body to see if it might be possible to protect the Earth from an asteroid collision, the European Space Agency's "Hera"...

NASA held a preview briefing on Thursday for its upcoming DART mission. DART, which is an acronym for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is meant to test the space agency's ability to defend the planet from an asteroid in the...

NASA's announced on Thursday that its Lucy mission is ready for launch on Saturday, October 16. The mission is set to explore the Trojan asteroids that surround Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. The spacecraft will reach the...