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

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a team led by ...

An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis.

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

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

Asteroid Bennu's sample delivered a shock: ribose and glucose were found, confirming the widespread presence of life's fundamental building blocks in the early Solar System.

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...