A tiny bit of asteroid dust is rewriting what we know about the early solar system and about ourselves. Pope Francis Passes ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

Hubble celebrates its 35th launch anniversary tomorrow (April 24), but there is a slight, yet tangible, damper in the air.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

Simply speaking, a lot of popes had proper names that had already been used by the church. For example, Pope Lando in 913 was ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.

On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...