A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

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

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...