Much of what scientists know about the early Solar System comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere.

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023. Earlier this year, the first in-depth analysis of the samples ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.

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The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is now more likely to make impact with the moon.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

NASA has issued a warning about asteroid 2023 KU, a 370-foot-wide space rock traveling at over 64,000 km/h. Expected to safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance of 1 million km ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032, but NASA has now reduced this chance to 0.004%. However, the chances of the asteroid hitting the moon have doubled, from 1.7 ...