Velaidum says the the space rock struck the area where the couple had just been standing minutes earlier. He thinks that if he hadn’t moved the meteorite would have killed him on the spot. Scientists ...

This Research Topic is still accepting articles. Article 1 of the Outer Space Treaty, which has been ratified by 112 countries, provides that the "exploration and use of outer space, including the ...

As part of this act, any U.S. citizen collecting mineral resources in outer space or on celestial bodies has a right to own, transport, use and sell those resources. This act is an example of national ...

"This is all very exciting because it suggests that asteroids like Bennu once acted like giant chemical factories in space and could have also delivered raw ingredients for life to Earth and other ...

History has been made on Mars: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter just achieved the first powered and controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity is a small, lightweight, drone-like helicopter that ...

The universe is a vast and awe-inspiring expanse, darkly mysterious, yet it draws us in like a cosmic pull we can’t resist. As space exploration today becomes more and more mainstream, with new ...

Here’s how it works. A massive piece of space junk recently smashed into a village in Kenya. The 1,100-pound (500 kilograms) ring of metal likely came from a rocket, though its exact origins are ...

A giant hot ring has crashed down to Earth and experts believe that it has come from space. Made of metal and weighing half a tonne, the bizarre object landed in a remote village in Kenya, ...

If it indeed came from space, McDowell suggested that the most likely culprit was a fairing adapter for an Ariane V rocket, which launched into space from the European Space Agency's Spaceport in ...

The simulation that produced the most realistic results involves an object eight times more massive than Jupiter that came almost as close to the sun as Mars is. This object would have come ...