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

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...

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

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

Four near-Earth asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth within a 24-hour period, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed. Scientists stress that all four objects will pass ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

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

At 950 feet in diameter, the asteroid is about the size of a typical stadium, or three football fields. The Virtual Telescope Project plans to stream the event live on YouTube. An asteroid about the ...

Scientists have revealed that asteroid Bennu is teeming with essential life molecules like ribose and glucose, significantly ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of ...