The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to form water.

Scientists have discovered where Earth's water comes from, and say that it wasn't brought to the planet by asteroid impacts ...

Scientists have finally found an answer to one of space’s biggest mysteries, and the answer could even lead to finally ...

Of all the asteroids that become meteoroids by striking Earth's surface, only 4% contain abundant carbon. But scientists know ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...

NASA is working on a new space observatory, NEO Surveyor, the first spacecraft designed to assess the threats of asteroids well in advance. The mission launch date is expected to be in the fall of ...

An archeologist from over 150 years ago sent a message to the future which has just been uncovered during a more detailed dig. Blue Origin shared footage of the six New Shepard passengers experiencing ...

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.