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, ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

A robotics company from Switzerland has designed a robot to carry packages from the delivery truck to your doorstep using ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

According to estimates, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, had the highest chance of any asteroid to hit Earth in modern history.

In 2016, NASA launched an awesome mission to catch up with asteroid Bennu, 320 million kilometers (200 million ... seeing how the wavefront changed as it hit the Earth below. The team believes that ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an impact likelihood of about 3%, additional data was ...