A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

Asteroid ‘could head for Earth’, researchers say, but when and where could it strike? - Researchers discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 last Christmas — and the odds on it hitting Earth have increased since ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a matter of minutes, ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that followed the initial one ...