NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s ...

NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Green-glowing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, heading for its December 19 flyby, is spewing key organic 'ingredients for life' ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals astonishingly rich organic chemistry, confirming that life's building blocks are ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought materials from the surface of the asteroid Bennu (pictured) safely back to Earth. The returned samples were then curated carefully, to prevent the ...

An interstellar comet making a brief passage through the solar system has triggered one of the largest coordinated astronomical observation efforts in recent memory. Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third ...

Before 3I/ATLAS, the only other confirmed interstellar tourists we've seen were the now-famous, cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua' in ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...