Earth, asteroid

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
At the beginning of the year, scientists at the Minor Planet Center at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, ...