NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in 2023, will study a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid, with new research showing that its ...

When humans finally land on Mars, what should they do? A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine lays out the science objectives for a crewed Mars mission.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system. Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is arguably the ...

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space ...

Rocks from Mars have landed on Earth. Scientists have found them, meteorites with a chemical signature that could only have come from the Red Planet, scattered across Antarctica and other remote ...

Talk about your cosmic pileups. An asteroid similar to the one that flattened forests in Siberia in 1908 could plow into Mars sometime in the next few weeks. Researchers attached to NASA's Near-Earth ...

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In laboratory experiments designed to mimic the crushing shock of a massive asteroid ...

In September 2022, humanity crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid—on purpose. The objective of NASA's Double Asteroid ...