When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something ...

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

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

NASA is sounding a clear alarm about the way SpaceX is reshaping low orbit, warning that the company’s satellite swarms and ...

Four near-Earth asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth within a 24-hour period, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed. Scientists stress that all four objects will pass ...

NASA has confirmed that four near-Earth asteroids will pass by Earth within 24 hours, but all will remain at safe distances ...

Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

NASA has identified an asteroid roughly comparable in size to the Empire State Building, traveling through space at about ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

Asteroid 2022 RD2 is a near-Earth object that could become a temporary moon, then later a potential crash risk for the planet later this century. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Scientists ...

Scientists have spotted a small asteroid that may circle Earth as a mini moon before shifting onto a path that could make it a hazard later in the century. NASA has calculated the asteroid’s orbit and ...

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...