A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

Seismic data reveals megaripples in Louisiana, formed by the Chicxulub asteroid’s tsunami 66 million years ago.

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently obtained its first clear images of the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, which is now within its line of sight. Lucy captured these images while it was 45 ...

Confident that the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx captured a good-sized sample from ... reached the asteroid Bennu, which is 200 million miles from Earth, and started taking images and mapping Bennu ...

Odin will take 300 days to catch up with the asteroid one million miles from Earth. It will take close-up images of the surface to confirm it is metallic. Image: Odin's solar arrays will power the ...

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NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have officially ruled out the possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032, with the latest analysis reducing the risk to just 0.001 ...