On March 21, 2021, an object the size of the Empire State Building—traveling at 77,000 miles per hour—passed within 1.25 ...

NASA has identified an asteroid roughly comparable in size to the Empire State Building, traveling through space at about ...

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

With a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032, an asteroid named YR4’s potential collision course is being monitored by NASA.

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

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

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

NASA's stunning radar images reveal asteroid 2025 OW, a tiny object spinning incredibly fast, challenging current scientific ...

A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid ...