One of the defining characteristics of Mars are its craters. Direct asteroid strikes are no doubt responsible for many of the most famous craters on Mars, but now experts say the aftermath of a single ...

LOS ANGELES — The chance of a football field-sized asteroid plowing into Mars next month has been increased to 4 percent, scientists said Friday after analyzing archival data. Though still a long shot ...

China has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield "groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos," the country's space ...

A recent study found that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is gradually shedding mass over time. This region was previously predicted to form a planet during the Solar System's birth 4.6 ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.

City-sized butterfly crater discovered in Mars’ Idaeus Fossae region Wings suggest buried ice melted by asteroid impact ...

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mars could be in for an asteroid hit.A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday."These odds are ...