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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

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 ...