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 ...

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

Asteroid Ryugu isn't much to look at, but its dust may help explain how life got started on Earth. The Smithsonian reports ...

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

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

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

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

A rock and a hard place ...

SYDNEY, AU / ACCESS Newswire / March 16, 2026 / When an asteroid slams into Earth, where does the debris land? Fragments of ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...