The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

Telescopes across the globe will track it so that astronomers can determine its exact location and make predictions about ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, currently aboard the International Space Station, captured footage of a meteor burning up in ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

The world's largest planetary defense drill is underway as scientists prepare for 3I/ATLAs to make its closest pass by Earth ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

With 3I/ATLAS just days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies around the globe are conducting the largest ...