NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

The space rock—recorded with visuals and sound—landed where the homeowner had been standing just minutes earlier ...

A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has been documented as likely the world's first audio ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Herd told the National Post that "it comes from the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter." “So a fragment of an asteroid broke off at some point — it could have been millions ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking their front walkway — where Velaidum had been standing moments before.

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...