NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

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

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

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...

The asteroid was officially confirmed by NASA as a “Provisional Discovery of a Main Belt Asteroid,” and now, Malik will have the honor of assigning it a permanent name. This confirmation ...

Now, the identification has been approved by NASA officially ... Most asteroids are found in the asteroid belt, but some stray off course into wider orbits. The largest asteroid in that belt ...

Daksh Malik, a Class 9 student at Shiv Nadar School, has discovered an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and ... students globally to help NASA identify new celestial objects.