All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected ...

A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has ...

NASA confirms the DART mission changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun - the first time humans moved a celestial ...

Samples from the asteroid Ryugu revealed all five genetic nucleobases, suggesting the building blocks for life existed in ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Far from being static, binary asteroid systems are surprisingly dynamic. A team led by ...

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

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 space? And, either... Comets, asteroids, and planets: The likely origins ...

A rock and a hard place ...

Dear EarthTalk: It seems to me the single biggest potential “environmental” problem we could face—even bigger than global warming or a nuclear war—is a comet or asteroid striking the Earth. Do we ...