Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

Today is one astronomers, stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists have been waiting for: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as ...

A chunk of rock roughly the size of a city bus is about to skim past our planet, close enough for NASA’s instruments to track ...

This week marks the last chance for backyard astronomers to see interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS before it races on its journey ...

A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaks this weekend, offering up to 150 meteors per hour. Discover the optimal viewing window and ...

The annual Geminid meteor shower should peak on Saturday night and continue onto early morning on Sunday while remaining ...

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The Bennu findings remind us that life-friendly chemistry may be widespread ...

The peak shower will appear to the east, coming out of the Gemini constellation, between 8 and 9 p.m. Saturday, and will last ...

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

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life began in our solar system.

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission brought home about a half-cup of crushed rocks and dirt from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Credit: NASA Goddard / University of Arizona illustration In one study, a ...