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

Asteroids are no longer just celestial curiosities on a telescope chart; they are emerging as test beds for a new resource ...

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

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

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

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

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

The asteroid with international designation 336877, discovered by the Nanjing-based Purple Mountain Observatory of the ...

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

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

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

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 ...