The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

NASA is tracking a near-Earth asteroid called 2026 BJ8 that is moving through space at around 50,000 kmph and is roughly the size of an airplane. Although its speed and relatively close approach to ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is carefully watching an asteroid called 2025 XM, a space rock about 84 feet (26 meters) wide, roughly the size of a Boeing 737 jet. This asteroid is moving ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks. The robotic ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

Named for the fossilized human ancestor, Lucy will be the first mission to study Trojan asteroids, believed to 4 billion year left overs from the formation of the solar system. NASA is preparing to ...