The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a speed of some 11,453 miles per hour, according to the space ...

DNA from a distance ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases—the molecular "letters" of life—have been detected in samples from the ...

A sample from the Ryugu asteroid has been revealed to contain all five “building blocks for life on Earth,” according to the ...

A loud boom heard across Cleveland on Tuesday morning could have been caused by a meteorite, according to the National ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected ...

It's proposing two approaches: either shoot dangerous asteroids with an ion cannon — or ram it out of orbit. The post Jeff ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth ...

Science fiction might be becoming science reality: Putting a big net up in space, then using it to catch asteroids, and mine ...