Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of ...

WASHINGTON — One of the best and brightest celestial displays of the year is about to peak this weekend. The Geminids, an ...

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

Professor K.T. Ramesh's How to Stop an Asteroid course introduces first-year Johns Hopkins undergrads to both the engineering ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...

NASA says that the chances of the asteroid known as 2024 YR hitting Earth have been virtually eliminated—but there is a small ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) research project is using data from NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and ...

Next weekend you can catch one of the best meteor showers of the year. It’s the annual Geminid meteor shower, and if the ...

What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you ...

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

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...