The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.
Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...
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 ...
Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...
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 ...
Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...
NASA alerts Spain to a rare 2026 total solar eclipse and a “potentially dangerous” asteroid, urging authorities to prepare ...
NASA has alerted the public to two upcoming asteroid approaches near Earth, reassuring that both are completely safe. These ...