A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid, “2025 XF1,” which is rapidly approaching Earth this week. With speeds of ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

Two asteroids are set for safe flybys near Earth, reassuring the public that no threat exists. NASA emphasizes these events ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

The Geminid meteor shower is considered one of the best of the year and will hit its peak activity soon. What to know.

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis.