It wasn’t science fiction — it was humanity’s first attempt to stop a cosmic killer. NASA’s DART mission smashed into an ...

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University.

An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis.

Bennu is a primitive rock. It has remained mostly unchanged since the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago. On September 24, 2023, dust and mineral samples were hauled to Earth by ...

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

With a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032, an asteroid named YR4’s potential collision course is being monitored by NASA.

According to new information provided by NASA has alarmed astronomers around the world have been alarmed, raising concerns ...

Tryptophan, an essential amino acid, has been discovered on asteroid Bennu, suggesting that asteroids may have delivered ...

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...