NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid, “2025 XF1,” which is rapidly approaching Earth this week. With speeds of ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 encounter with Apophis.

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the threat once posed by the infamous Apophis. While YR4 still has a nearly 97% chance ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Space communications expert, Alexandra Doten, has explained what the discovery of a gum-like substance on an asteroid 63 ...

An asteroid's chances of hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen again to over 3%. Experts say not to worry for now, as chances the asteroid will miss the Earth stand at nearly 97%. Astronomers now say a ...

Asteroid 2025 XF1 is hurting through the solar system at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the spacy agency.