The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

NASA has been observing bodies in space for a long time and compiled lists of behavioral patterns and discovered an asteroid ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Two asteroids are set for safe flybys near Earth, reassuring the public that no threat exists. NASA emphasizes these events ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...