NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space ...

As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another ...

Donaldjohanson (DJ), which is about to be studied by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft in an upcoming flyby on April 20, 2025? This | ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s composition is still unknown and can only be viewed by high-powered telescopes in the southern hemisphere. Its impact on Earth could be as powerful as a 75 megaton nuclear ...

The passage offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to observe the asteroid up close and learn more about its composition and origin. These observations may lead scientists to learn even more about the ...

If an asteroid were to hit Earth, the scale of damage would depend greatly on its size and composition, as well as where exactly it entered the atmosphere. For example, if it happened somewhere ...

Quickly, quickly! You don't want to be out there. Don't you know that there's an asteroid coming? It's this one, over here. Asteroid 2024 YR4, and it could smash into Earth in 2032. NEWS SOUNDBITE ...

The asteroid mission is a high-risk venture that ... Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London have analysed the composition of meteorites that have fallen to Earth.