Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu.

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling toward Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in space.

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from any large asteroids discovered coming our way.

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...