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

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

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 ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams ... from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus also beckon ...

The asteroid was officially confirmed by NASA as a “Provisional Discovery of a Main Belt Asteroid,” and now, Malik will have the honor of assigning it a permanent name. This confirmation ...

Now, the identification has been approved by NASA officially ... Most asteroids are found in the asteroid belt, but some stray off course into wider orbits. The largest asteroid in that belt ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 ... from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus also beckon ...