A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

NASA issues an asteroid alert for 2024 WQ2, a 130-ft asteroid racing past Earth at 62,388 km/h. No threat to Earth, but close ...

NASA announced its spacecraft will orbit asteroid 16 Psyche for 26 months, collecting data to uncover its history and other ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The "mini-moon measures approximately 11 meters in diameter, which is roughly the length of a London bus, 2024 PT5 has been ...

2024 PT5 won't be staying away from Earth for long. According to the NASA JPL small body lookup database the asteroid will be ...

HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been scuppered yet again. And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space ...

Professor Noville, a Spanish scientist, has discovered a formula using the gravitational bending of light to pinpoint celestial objects including hazardous asteroids ...

A new equation using gravitational light bending enhances asteroid detection, improving defenses against potential impacts, ...

A dead space telescope has left behind jaw-dropping unreleased cosmic images. NASA’s NEOWISE telescope ended its journey ...