A team of planetary scientists has revealed evidence of a massive asteroid impact on the moon that occurred around 3.5 ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission could soon answer one of the most intriguing questions in planetary science: is asteroid ...

NASA's Lucy mission is key to helping us understand the early history of our solar system as it studies asteroids like the Donaldjohanson. Named after the paleoanthropologist who co-discovered the ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence in a lunar rock of an impact powerful enough to melt vast regions of the Moon and leave ...

The first few billion years of Earth's history saw the rise of life, the atmosphere and the oceans. Still, that time is ...