Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

A University of Tokyo team has said that it has managed to rapidly identify from photographs the size, location and shape of some 200,000 rocks ... asteroid probe, while those of asteroid Bennu ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa ...

But billions of years ago, the surface was more temperate. Rock samples could tell us whether it supported ancient life. Across the Martian landscape, the view is breathtaking. Everything is quiet ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

A newly discovered asteroid is on track for a close brush with Earth—and it might even slam into the Moon. Recently, astronomers got a closer look at the giant space rock, revealing its violent ...

A global trade war set off by U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs looks set to escalate further as Washington and ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

between 1 and 1.5 grams of water for every million grams of lunar rock. Prior measurements from samples collected on the near side of the moon — by the United States, the Soviet Union and more ...