The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

Around 3.4 billion years ago, when Mars was a warm, wet world, an asteroid several kilometers wide tore through its thin air and crashed into a shallow sea, leaving an expansive crater on the seafloor ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...

Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have worked ...

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains ancient, ice-covered rocks that may have delivered much of Earth’s water ...

New images of the interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, shows its nucleus and a surrounding coma with a diameter reaching several ...

Spacecraft overcomes cosmic challenges to photograph curious object hurtling through solar system amid debate it could be ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager ...

Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, plans to challenge SpaceX with the powerful, partially reusable New Glenn rocket.

We often think getting to know Mars will require us to actually get there in person and have a look at the place. While that may be true when it comes to uncovering the mysteries of the planetary ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- The possibility of a collision between Mars and an approaching asteroid has been effectively ruled out, according to scientists watching the space rock. Tracking measurements of ...