DOHA: Head of the Qatar Astronomical Center Sheikh Salman bin Jabor Al Thani has discovered a second fragment of a meteorite ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will compete for dominance in January skies. The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

February’s 150th anniversary celebrations will be the second Meat Shower Festival after this year’s event featured a reading ...

This year brought us our third-known interstellar visitor, beautiful displays of the northern lights and the opening of the ...

A University of Utah research team’s rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue. The space agency said Thursday the U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...