If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its upcoming ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

When scientists finally cracked open the capsule from asteroid Bennu, they expected carbon, water-bearing minerals, and maybe ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

The people of the 22nd and 23rd centuries have a little less to worry about as of Wednesday, as NASA scientists have confirmed there is little likelihood that the half-kilometer-wide near-Earth ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu could be Exhibit A for space miners making their case to skeptical investors. New observations by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft suggest that the 1,650-foot-wide (500 ...

We just had our first ever landing on a comet in 2014 (and we finally found Philae this week!). Now, we’re going to an asteroid and coming back. Can you believe it? Tonight, the Origins, Spectral ...

In September 2135, the 1,600-foot-wide asteroid Bennu will pass between the Earth and the moon — and while scientists said Wednesday there is no chance of a collision, Earth's gravity will alter the ...

NASA has given newly revised figures about the threat posed by the asteroid 101955 Bennu. In a study released on Wednesday, NASA researchers said the chance of Bennu hitting Earth through the year ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance ...