Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Feb. 2 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched 22 more Starlink satellites, this time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 4E at 3:02 p.m. PST Saturday. About eight ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

CNN reports how new research from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center published to “Nature” has revealed that samples from the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, contains organic compounds and minerals ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...