Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

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

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

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

The risk of impact is likely drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Eight planets, hundreds of moons, hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets orbiting our Sun make up our ...

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

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 ...

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.

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

"Asteroids are debris left over from the early formation of the Solar System," Martin Barstow, a professor of astrophysics and space science at the University of Leicester in the U.K., previously ...