A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

NASA is tracking three asteroids namely 2026 ET2, 2026 EY2 and 2026 CR3 to pass Earth on March 16, 2026. Will they hit Earth?

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...

NASA is closely tracking three large asteroids, ranging from bus to airplane-sized, expected to pass Earth safely on March 16, 2026.

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

More than half of the near-Earth objects large enough to destroy a city have never been spotted by any telescope on or off the planet. NASA estimates the total population of these objects at roughly ...

In 2022, NASA hit Dimorphos with a spacecraft. But looking back through the data, astronomers believe they have found evidence of an impact event prior to the big test.

More space technology must be developed to prevent "city-killing asteroids" from hitting Earth, experts recommended at a recent science conference. While the risk is low, mid-size asteroids near Earth ...

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...