Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...

Close to the moon's ... giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - that is thought to have happened at the time.

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour.

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Small amounts of Bennu's precious black grains — leftovers ... rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet ...