In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified what appears to be a new element on asteroid 33 Polyhymnia, ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact. According to NASA’s analysis, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, has a more ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

SCIENCE Asteroid discovery suggests life on Earth came from space billions of years ago 2 organic compounds essential for metabolism and building RNA were found in ...

Most of the 27,500 asteroid discovery candidates are in the main belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But the candidates also include more than 100 apparent near-Earth asteroids.

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

The OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at the 1,850-foot-wide asteroid in 2020, scooped up rock and dirt, and then jetted back to Earth. On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx return capsule parachuted down to a ...

An asteroid was recently discovered just two hours before it struck Earth’s atmosphere. On March 11, Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky from the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest ...