A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ice. The close pass sounds ominous, but the science behind these ...

NASA is also tracking a building-sized asteroid named “2025 YC3”, with a diameter of around 260 feet, and another bus-sized one known as “2025 XT7,” some 42 feet across. Both are expected to come with ...

NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth today (Dec. 19, 2025). Here's the latest news you need to ...

The comet, which will come within roughly 167 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet, will be tracked by telescopes around the world so astronomers can pinpoint its location and make ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...