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

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

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

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

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun, mostly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They can ...

The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...