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

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured C/2024 G3 "paying us a visit" in a striking photo released Jan. 11 on the social platform X. In the image, the comet's streaming tail makes it look like it is ...

A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: ... NASA's Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy Jan. 17, 2025 — In the years following the launch ...

The first major space decision undertaken by the incoming second Donald Trump administration was to pick billionaire entrepreneur and private space traveler Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.

Astronauts are to search for life in space - clinging to the International Space Station. NASA crew will swab the exterior of the orbital outpost next week to collect microbiological samples ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its ... Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...