Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks of life— in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid named Bennu. What can this discovery reveal ...

Quokkas are small marsupials about the size of domestic cats. They are 16 to 21 inches long and weigh 5.5 to 11 pounds. The quokka has a stocky build with short, rounded ears. Their fur is ...

A large asteroid is about to get too close to the Earth today. Meet Asteroid 2025 DM7. NASA has it that the space rock will get uncomfortably close to the Earth and in fact, just narrowly avoid ...

NASA has reassured the public that asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses any threat to Earth. Initially, the asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of impact, making it a Level 3 risk on the Torino Scale.

Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to talk about what samples of the asteroid Bennu reveal about the building blocks of life on Earth. He'll also look at what's happening with the ...

Any risk to Earth from this small asteroid has almost been eliminated, but there's still a chance it could hit the Moon in 2032! The latest telescopic observations have reduced the danger posed by ...

His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has ... The law made clear that private companies can, in fact, claim ownership of spaceborne materials, he said.

NASA scientists previously estimated that the odds of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth ... 2024 YR4 is no longer a risk to Earth, the fact that NASA was preparing for far more ...

Considering the threat asteroids pose to earth, NASA deploys spacecraft to study asteroids and among these missions was the Dawn mission to asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and the OSIRIS-REx mission to ...