Earth bacteria rapidly colonized Japan’s Ryugu asteroid sample after exposure, revealing the resilience of microbes and ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

A dead space telescope has left behind jaw-dropping unreleased cosmic images. NASA’s NEOWISE telescope ended its journey ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published ...

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 didn't stick around for Thanksgiving, but don't be sad. It will be back... but will it ever be a second ...

Spanish Scientists might have made it infinitely easier to spot space rocks heading for Earth — by calculating the ...

Pumping an unimaginable amount of groundwater out of the earth is why Earth has tilted over two dozen degrees, a study found.

After a two-month visit, 2024 PT5 is ready to continue its cosmic journey—but it will be back in a few decades.