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For the first time, scientists have discovered key ingredients to life on the surface of a distant silicate-rich asteroid using the FORCAST instrument.

NASA has published an updated count on all of its near-Earth asteroids it has on record and expects to discover as of August, 2023.

Planetary defense experts have expressed their concern in a new survey that growing satellite numbers in orbit around Earth may impact asteroid detection.

Samples collected by Hayabusa-2 from the asteroid Ryugu contain water and organic matter like amino acids that asteroids may have first brought to Earth.

NASA has taken to its website to explain the difference between space rocks such as asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites.

Researchers from ETH Zurich have found that planetesimals in the early solar system likely aggregated to form Earth as we know it.

Ahead of a visit from NASA spacecraft launching later this year, MIT researchers have mapped 20 miles of 16 Psyche per map pixel.

A recent exercise by NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office and the International Asteroid Warning Network is now complete.

A former NASA astronaut wants to protect Earth from killer asteroids and has developed a software tool to help defend from doom.

Astroforge, a Y Combinator asteroid-mining startup, has scheduled its first mission due to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Scientists have confirmed in a new study that it's possible for asteroids to contain the key 'building blocks' of DNA and RNA.

NASA's new next-generation near-Earth asteroid impact monitoring algorithm has now been deployed, ready to protect our planet.

The largest comet that has ever been found with a telescope has just surprised researchers and will no doubt continue to do so.

A NASA expert has revealed the difference between asteroids, comets, and meteors in a new video posted to its YouTube channel.

A NASA expert took to the agency's YouTube channel with a video to answer, 'Is NASA aware of any Earth-threatening asteroids?'

A new study has connected the bombardment of asteroids onto Earth's surface during its formative years to past oxygen levels.

Here's the most detailed look at some of the solar system's largest asteroids that are floating around in an asteroid belt.

A NASA scientist has answered one of the most burning questions about asteroids - do we know about all of the asteroids?

NASA recently updated the odds of a collision with Earth, one of the two most hazardous objects floating around our solar system.

Astronomers have found a mysterious object in space that is flying towards Earth, and they don't know what it is exactly.

Astronomers have found a comet that has its own aurora. This comet is called 67P/C-G, and we've never found anything like it.

Humans are polluting and destroying Earth in the mining industry, but what if that could all be solved by mining in space?

Scientists have found that around 800 million years ago, both the Earth and the Moon experienced a bombardment from space.

Jupiter might not be Earth's shield against asteroids, it could instead be a massive slingshot.

We spoke to Atari about what's going on with Asteroids: Outpost. It turns out that they're revisiting some core gameplay elements based on user feedback.

Atari announces a new multiplayer-focused survival game, Asteroids: Outpost, will launch it on Steam Early Access.

After the last few days of asteroid-filled news, Congress will begin discussing killer asteroids.

New free iPhone 4 application turns your bedroom, wherever you are, into Asteroids.