A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...

Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

Imagine a rock floating between Mars and Jupiter with an estimated value of $10,000 quadrillion. It is not an exaggeration.

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International Asteroid Day aims to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and to inform the public about the crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

On that fateful day, an asteroid detonated above the remote Siberian wilderness in Russia, unleashing a force equivalent to 185 atomic bombs dropped on Japan's Hiroshima. The blast leveled ...

NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.

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What minerals within the grain samples from asteroid Ryugu that returned to Earth can teach scientists about this intriguing ...