Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has been documented as likely the world's first audio ...

Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact, which confirmed ... Aug. 22, 2024 ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

His examination determined that this was, indeed, a meteorite, likely originating from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Now officially known as the Charlottetown meteorite, it is classified ...

Herd discovered that the sample was chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes Earth, and that it likely originated from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The footage is ...