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

Researchers worry an “extinction-level event” is coming for space science as the Trump administration looks to slash spending ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Geological resources such as critical metals and minerals, essential for the diffusion of technologies such as renewable ...

The study indicates that regional water availability limits both the current and future production of 32 geological resources ...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

“That’s zero, folks!” quipped Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary science who studies asteroids, in an email. The brief surge of interest in 2024 YR4, which made its way into ...