NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...
The odds of a recently discovered massive asteroid hitting Earth within the next seven years are shockingly not zero. Dubbed ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...