Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

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

TN17 will safely pass Earth this time, NASA's warning serves as a reminder of the lurking dangers in space. Scientists and ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red Planet's tiniest moon.

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

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...