NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...

These estimates created general alarm, as collisions could potentially have apocalyptic consequences on a targeted location. The asteroid became a big attractor soon among global asteroid-risk ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids in the Kuiper Belt could be triplets.

Most asteroids rather conveniently live in a place between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid belt, but some can make their way a little closer to earth, where they can cause problems.

But almost four years after making the big location move, they are completely at-ease with their decision and their kids are thriving. "We wouldn't want to be anywhere else," she says. Helping ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and ... Depending on the location, the impact could result in mass casualties across cities and states.

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...