Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

Asteroid 2025 XF1 is hurting through the solar system at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the spacy agency.

The first grains of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu are turning out to be far richer than many scientists dared hope, ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

Professor K.T. Ramesh's How to Stop an Asteroid course introduces first-year Johns Hopkins undergrads to both the engineering ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

Life on Earth may have begun with a gift from a comet. Its existence was once threatened by an asteroid. Its future may ...

Global cooperation is, unsurprisingly for a threat that comes from the stars, essential. Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Note: The Earth, Sun and asteroids are depicted as representations, not ...

A new study from the University of São Paulo in Brazil said some asteroids orbiting Venus “can pose a collisional hazard to Earth” benmoss/Getty Experts say Venus is hiding some asteroids that could ...

Astronomers have detected three asteroids in close proximity to Earth, two of which pose a potential threat as "planet killers" because of their larger and hazardous size, but don't worry, says a NASA ...

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