The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

In a similar vein, the 2023 source, cs2, recently emerged from another rare yet sizable asteroid collision. The impact poofed ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth this week, safely passing at 167m miles. The UN & NASA are ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space materials.

Principal researcher James Bauer says observations from the International Asteroid Warning Network will help experts better understand how to send spacecraft to comets in the future ...

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 ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...

More than nine months after a wildfire devastated the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, destroying nearly 7,000 structures and killing at least 12 people, authorities have arrested a ...

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid the size of a school bus is headed our way, but NASA says the space rock will zoom safely past Earth on Thursday. The newly discovered asteroid will come within ...

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