As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was acquired during the planet’s formation.

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

Asteroids hit Earth more often than most people realize, but most are small and burn up in the atmosphere. The real threat ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

The Asteroid Belt doesn’t look like asteroid fields in movies, filled with rocks constantly hitting each other. Space is big, ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Astronomers are constantly tracking “potentially hazardous” objects in space, using advanced telescopes capable of detecting ...

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...