"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

Brian Hackney reports on the possible origins of Earth's recent "mini-moon" that is preparing to depart our orbit.

Astronomers used the Two-meter Twin Telescope to catch a "see-you-soon" image of the departing asteroid 2024 PT5.

Astronomers are gearing up to study an asteroid that will revisit Earth in 2025. It is about 33 feet wide and will come quite ...

Currently, more than 2 million miles away, the object is too small and faint to see without a powerful telescope.

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...

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

NASA announced its spacecraft will orbit asteroid 16 Psyche for 26 months, collecting data to uncover its history and other ...

HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been scuppered yet again. And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space ...

The samples were collected by Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused with Ryugu in June 2018.