A California company is designing a spacecraft that’s set to launch in April 2028 with a mission to intercept an asteroid as ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases in asteroid Ryugu samples, suggesting the key building blocks of DNA and RNA are ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX has confidentially filed for its hotly anticipated U.S. initial public offering, a person familiar with ...

Eight launches took place from China during March, the last of which saw the much anticipated debut of CAS Space’s Lijian-2 ...

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

NASA notes that we're now in peak fireball season, a time period that typically runs from February through April.

Scientists studying Bennu samples have discovered that its chemistry is far from uniform. Organic compounds and minerals ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest ...

Brett Joseph Cohen has visited Ohio in recent weeks, finding pieces of a meteor that crossed the skies of northwestern ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

Polling has consistently found that most people would prefer NASA spend money on things like monitoring climate change and ...

With Artemis set to return to the moon, McCandless argues we’re in a new space race with China that will have implications for science, law, access to ...