Rare Mars meteorite expected to fetch $160,000 at auction

NASA's plan to capture an asteroid and re-position it around the moon for an astronaut visit sounds cool, but it's a side-show on the road

A piece of asteroid that fell on earth after its impact on Mars is up for grabs. That little piece of Mars fell to Earth, where it was discovered in the Sahara Desert last year. Now it can be yours for the price of about 160, 000 dollars, part of an auction ...

Many astronomers are eyeing on to the giant asteroid that is expected to drift fairly close to earth late next week. It will sail past earth at a safe distance of 3.6 million miles, which is about 15 times the distance between moon and earth.

NASA announced that its first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. According to a release, the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith ...

Russia received a preview of the events following a meteor attack on 15th of February. Thousands of residents of Chelyabinsk in South-western Russia were stunned when an 11-ton meteorite shattered the windows and injured around 1,200 people from the ...

The ongoing and everlasting space talks about missions to the Red Planet and asteroid mining have totally diverted our minds that made us forget about any other thing. So, here is a reminder, it's been 40 years since the launch of America's first ...

Researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has confirmed that a massive asteroid nine times larger than a cruise ship is set to zip pass the planet in May. The asteroid named 1998 QE2 will be at a 'distance of 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometres), or ...

NASA experts have several works in hand for the future and one in the list is a technology to stop asteroids too. Yes, protecting our planet Earth from being hit by any asteroid is one of the many missions that NASA has in the works. The details ...