Every day, roughly 25,000 asteroids larger than 460 feet orbit near Earth, posing risks of regional devastation from a single ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid, “2025 XF1,” which is rapidly approaching Earth this week. With speeds of nearly 8,000 miles per hour, the space agency’s observations are critical for ...

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 ...

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

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

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth in just over a week from now, coming within 167 million ...

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

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

A stray comet will make its closest approach to Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar ...