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

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun, mostly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They can ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

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

YR4 has a 1-in-83 chance of striking Earth in December of 2032 as it continues to move in its orbit around 27 million miles ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

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