Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists have observed two objects colliding around a bright star 25 light-years from Earth.

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...