Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...