Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032.

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

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NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

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, ...

It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...

Aiden Easterday was born nearly five years ago, out on a boat in the middle of a storm. On Wednesday, he got to reunite with first responders who were there for his incredible arrival. Easterday ...

Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...

NASA’s EPIC instrument acquired the image of Africa and Europe (above) on March 19, 2020. Head over to the science team page for EPIC and take a few moments to savor some imagery of our ever-changing ...