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

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

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 ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured stunning new images as it whipped past Earth during a high-speed slingshot maneuver, sending the probe on a fast track toward the asteroid Apophis.

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

Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust ...

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

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, ...

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

Asteroid 2025 XF1 is hurting through the solar system at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the spacy agency.