Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...

That asteroid was wet and muddy. Under the surface, pockets of water perhaps only a few feet across were evaporating, leaving the evaporite minerals we found in the sample. That same evaporation ...

NASA's Rover found ripples in Martian rock that resemble the wave patterns on a sandy lake bed on Earth. The ripples could only have come from liquid water.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare cache to ... such as amino acids and components found in DNA. Additionally, researchers ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

It's the most hazardous space rock detected since astronomers first discovered the notorious ... the mission will observe how the surface of the asteroid changes from being in such close proximity ...