How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

When scientists cracked open the first grains from asteroid Bennu, they expected a time capsule of rock and dust. What they ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

Meteorite ALH84001 drove scientific interest in 1996 when researchers announced the presence of bacteria fossils. In years since, those claims have been largely debunked. When NASA scientists opened ...

After analyzing samples returned from asteroid Bennu, NASA scientists identified a strange new substance never before observed in space rocks, raising new questions about early solar system chemistry.

3I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar ...