The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed it is closely monitoring an asteroid that could hit the Earth in 2032. The recently discovered asteroid is estimated to be between 40m and 100m wide.

The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life, but also the salty remains of an ...

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft brought rock samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Now, in the analysis of the rock, scientists have found building blocks essential for life.