NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...
This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.
"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...
The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...