Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust ...

Looking for Near-Earth objects (NEOs) has demonstrated a simple fact: there are a lot of rocks in space, and many of them ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

The Australian company HEO Robotics wants to join efforts to study a rare space event, conducting its own flyby of the ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock. The post ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned in new research. The giant space rocks are believed ...

“Our findings expand the evidence that prebiotic organic molecules can form within primitive accreting planetary bodies and ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks. A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space ...