A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...

A chunk of rock roughly the size of a city bus is about to skim past our planet, close enough for NASA’s instruments to track ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

With 3I/ATLAS days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies worldwide are conducting the largest and most ...

On Dec. 13, 2012, a Chinese spacecraft flew by the asteroid Toutatis. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

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

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Asteroid 2025 XF1 is hurting through the solar system at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the spacy agency.

Space communications expert, Alexandra Doten, has explained what the discovery of a gum-like substance on an asteroid 63 ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this week on Dec. 19, 2025. Here's the latest news ...