A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artur Debat / Getty Images An landscape image of the planet Mars. A rock from Mars is going up for auction at Sotheby's and is ...

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino ...

The Martian meteorite is 54 pounds, or about the weight of a standard bag of cement. It's 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars on Earth. NWA 16788 was discovered Nov. 16, 2023, by a ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed 2024 PT5 ...

Sometimes, getting hit by a space rock is a good thing. The asteroid which struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped the dinosaurs off the planet (at least until John Hammond built Jurassic Park) but ...

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Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest ...