NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

On Friday the 13th (yes, really) of April 2029, Earth will avoid an apocalyptic event by an astronomical hair’s breadth as the asteroid Apophis, streaks by. It will come closer to Earth than the ...

Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

How is it possible to tell if a space rock will one day collide with the Earth? Giant space rocks are definitely going to hit the Earth again. We actually do know how to deflect them, but only if ...

Don’t blame the astronomers for the ever-changing odds that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from an unprecedented 3.1 per cent to less than 1 per cent.

Sue Nelson explores how asteroids can inform our understanding of the Earth's past – or threaten our future. Each year, according to Nasa, a chunk of rock the size of a car hurtles through space ...

The history of life on Earth began long after the planet's formation 4.6 billion years ago. During the earliest stage of ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it. By Katrina Miller and Dennis Overbye The NASA ...

The NASA astronauts splashed down on Tuesday in a SpaceX capsule after problems with a Boeing vehicle set in motion a nine-month stay on the International Space Station. We explain why two ...