William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

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

NASA alerts about asteroid 2014 TN17, a 540-ft space rock hurtling toward Earth at 77,282 kilometres per hour., Science News - Times Now ...

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

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

Scientists have discovered two diamond-like planets, PSR J1719-1438b and 55 Cancri e, challenging our understanding of planetary composition and formation, and raising questions about the universe's ...

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 ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers says that instead of stressing about the near miss, we can be excited by ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

Scientists have speculated that vast quantities of water are buried between six and 12 miles under the surface of Mars, which ...