Asteroid Bennu has gone from a dark speck in telescope images to a kind of time capsule, carrying intact chemistry from the ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Laboratory analysis has confirmed the presence of the essential amino acid, tryptophan, within the Bennu asteroid samples.

THE United Nations has officially confirmed the Earth’s planetary defences will be tested by the bizarre 31/ATLAS comet that ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

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

The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity's growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

An asteroid could wipe out humanity, but it's unlikely. Near-misses are more common than impacts, though planetary defence is ...

A fireball lit up the skies over the Great Lakes in the early hours of Sunday and was visible for hundreds of miles.