A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

Space scientists have revealed a new image of the mysterious space rock that passed through our solar system. Researchers said the picture shows the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, suggested to be a ...

A small asteroid spotted only hours before it struck the atmosphere has become a touchstone for how fragile, and how powerful, our planetary defense really is. The impact itself was harmless, but the ...

More than 50,000 meteorites have been found on Earth, scientists say, but only one has been documented to have hit a person. On June 26, when people across several states in the South reported seeing ...

The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for scientists keen to learn about how life may have begun in our solar system.

Tentacles emerging from a mysterious rock—a bizarre discovery in Panama has left social media buzzing with wild speculation. A man known only as Kin claims to have found a strange organism growing ...