Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

Long before it reaches its destination, NASA's Lucy spacecraft delivers valuable data. Now it has passed a particularly unusually shaped asteroid.

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

A new milestone in the exploration of outer space. NASA has shared images of the progress of one of its most important missions, managing to capture the movement of one of the aste ...

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery." ...

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the “mountains” and “valleys” formed at the edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, located in the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula.

S et a time machine to around 275 million years ago and the Guadalupe Mountains would look like another world. Instead of ...

N ASA’s Lucy spacecraft has encountered its second official asteroid, and once again, the object has defied expectations. The ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas.