The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

"It is possible that asteroid 2024 YR4 will fade from view before we are able to entirely rule out any chance of impact in ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

According to scientists, there is a 1.6 per cent chance the asteroid will strike Earth on Dec 22, 2032. Read more at ...

Orbital manufacturing. Private space stations. Moon buggies. Exploring Mars. All are there, alongside the more humdrum (if ...

The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.

Massive Mars meteoroid strike that set off 'marsquake' helps NASA understand Red Planet's crust and core - NASA researchers ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample named 'Silver Mountain' from Mars' Jezero Crater, marking a ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...