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

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...

The search for water on the Moon has captivated scientists for decades. Beyond its implications for understanding planetary ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.