The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The space rock known as "2026 CC" measures ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed to 3.1 percent. This was the highest probability of a strike by an object of ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over ...

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Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Researchers are uncovering the evolutionary steps that set the stage for dinosaurs to rule the planet Amy McDermott, PNAS Front Matter Paleontologists have found early examples of theropods, the group ...

Stephanie Brookes receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is an Associate Member of the Australian Cartoonists' Association. Richard Scully receives funding from the Australian ...

Now that HBO is back in the name, the Max streaming service is calling "takesies backsies" on its family entertainment plans. At this stage, the strategy shift seems to mean removing a lot of ...