Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Asteroid 2025 TF's closest approach was about ~186 miles (300 km) from Earth. It is estimated to be about 2 meters (6.5 feet) ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 53–67 meter wide object discovered by Chile's ATLAS telescope in late 2024, poses a significant threat ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...