Asteroid Bennu was expected to be relatively smooth and easy to sample. When OSIRIS-REx arrived, it found a surface covered almost entirely in massive boulders. Safe landing zones shrank to areas no ...

The newest patch notes for Street Fighter 6 have come out, and the 12.16.2025 Battle Change update has major implications because that locks in the balance that will be in play for Capcom Cup 12. Mai ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers say shouldn’t exist. Hundreds of Geminid meteors blaze across the night ...

Avid sky-gazers spend all year anticipating the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Now, it's finally here. This weekend, dozens of meteors, including some especially brilliant ones called ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

This mission follows NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on its journey to a rare metal-rich asteroid, believed to be the exposed core of an ancient protoplanet. The expedition could unlock secrets about ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid—"2025 XM"—that is expected to pass within 295,000 miles of Earth today, December 9, according to data from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The visiting ...

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.

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

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 ...

Scientists have found mysterious space gum vital to creating life in an asteroid sample. Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu ...