Space can be a wondrous place ... sun's atmosphere aims aurora-sparking solar wind at Earth (photo) Tuesday, January 28, 2025: In an image captured at the end of last week, NASA has brought ...

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...

“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 percent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object ... find the space rock in images from then ...

An amateur astronomer submitted evidence of a new near-Earth asteroid that turned out to be the Tesla Roadster that SpaceX launched into space in 2018. . | Credit: SpaceX via Getty Images Astronomers ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

The space rock, named 2024 YR4, is between 130 feet and 330 feet in diameter and could hit Earth in 2032, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth ... jPL-Caltech/Getty Images Asteroid 2024 ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission ... interesting and complex ways on Bennu’s parent body,” said Tim McCoy, the Smithsonian Institution’s curator ...