When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Bennu, scientists expected a gentle landing. Instead, the probe sank deep into the surface — as if the ground had turned to liquid. For a ...

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

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

DeGrasse Tyson, the world-renowned astrophysicist, spoke in front of 4,000 people at a summit in Erie in Oct. 29.

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

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Astronomers have discovered amazing fragments of a rare meteorite on the Moon, which may help reveal the secrets of the ...

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...