Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

New experiments suggest that RNA, a crucial molecule for life, could have naturally formed on early Earth or even arrived from space via asteroids.

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began studying the heavens from a Chilean mountaintop last spring, and its "first light" images ...

Out in the depths of space, somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, is a newly discovered asteroid that's breaking records.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...