Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile that crosses Earth’s orbit every few years, is turning out to be a kind of cosmic pantry ...

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston closed 2025 with major progress across human spaceflight, research, and exploration.

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Asteroid Bennu was already a time capsule from the dawn of the Solar System, but the first detailed look at its returned ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat As the year is about to end, here is a short review of important breakthroughs in science that defined the ...

An unexpected bird strike triggered the crash, and the test vehicle exited the north end of the runway at low speed, Space Florida officials said in a statement. The vehicle struck the NASA-owned ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has been given a side job during its seven-year cruise to study and sample an asteroid named Bennu. The NASA spacecraft’s cameras will be looking for ...

Planetary defense efforts, formalized after the 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact, aim to catalog and track hazardous near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) capable of causing significant damage, with mandates ...