A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.

Emergency space missions. Blowing up an asteroid. Mass evacuations. Here’s what the response to an imminent impact could look like.

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

the force of its impact would be equivalent to 19,000 tons of TNT — powerful enough to do catastrophic damage if it landed on a large city. Asteroid 2025 BS4 is just one of more than 37,000 ...

Astronomers have identified asteroid 2024 YR4 with a 1.2% chance ... particularly over a major city. After a little less than a decade, 2024 YR4 is expected to pass within 66,000 miles of Earth.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...

NASA's latest asteroid sample from Bennu reveals amino acids and nucleobases, essential for life, sparking questions about extraterrestrial existence. These findings suggest life's building blocks ...

That doesn't necessarily mean asteroids are flying around with DNA and small alien bacteria. However, that early pre-life chemistry may have started on an asteroid in space before it crashed into ...