With 3I/ATLAS days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies worldwide are conducting the largest and most ...

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

The space object, which was only recently discovered by scientists, will pass closest to Earth on Friday, December 19. Here's ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2025 XV, a 290-foot building-sized object, set to safely pass Earth on December 18.

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

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

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine ...

An artist's rendering depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-and-Go Sample Arm Mechanism. In samples taken from a distant asteroid, scientists have discovered a ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

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