The asteroid sampling mission was first conceived at the university more than 20 years ago. NASA gave the project a greenlight in 2011 as part of its New Frontiers program. Short for the Origins ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected ... (AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.

Scientists say the “building blocks for life” have been found inside the rubble of a 500-metre-wide asteroid in a breakthrough study.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

The nearly 200-foot space rock has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever,’ says ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...