A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a ... [+] once every 5,000 to 10,000 years event. What is considered rare in astronomy is a ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system. Analysis of three ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...

NASA is keeping a close eye on a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to skim past Earth Saturday at a distance only slightly father away than the moon. Officials at the space agency's Jet ...

World News. NASA works against the clock with risky plan to stop asteroids that could wipe out Earth NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is set to pass near Earth this Saturday ...

The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for ...

Scientists previously believed that a large asteroid broke apart within the solar system, creating the meteorites that hit Earth during the Ordovician Period. However, such an impact would have ...

NASA says a bus-sized asteroid is about to make a close approach, coming within 148,000 miles of Earth. According to the space agency, the asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet ...

"There may still be water out there to be found." On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows of saltwater ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...