The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — a global network of telescopes funded by NASA to find Earth-threatening ...

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...

NASA and ESA are monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, with an estimated size of up to 328 feet and a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

NASA and ESA are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which is about 328 feet wide and has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.