A space rock with a peculiar orbit may be a floating piece of the moon. Scientists had thought moon rocks weren't able to stay in orbit after a meteorite blast. The new discovery could help better ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

NASA launched a spacecraft—also named Psyche—to investigate the asteroid from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... to a ...

Scare in Indonesia after a spacecraft sent into space by the USSR in 1972 fell ... Apparently, a floating skull-shaped rock has just been discovered that, they say, should not be there.

of the asteroid's dusty rock into space. For context, that's about enough to fill six or seven railcars, the team says. What comes next is studying the now free-floating debris to decode what ...

Asteroid - big lumps of rock floating in space Meteoroid - a smaller bit of rock that breaks off an asteroid Meteor - as a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere it burns up - like a shooting ...

She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of climate ... time we've sent a mission to a body that is not mostly rock or ice, but metal," Benjamin Weiss, an MIT professor ...