NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Rex Heuermann has been accused of killing seven women over the course of nearly 20 years Kelsey Lentz is a former assistant editor at PEOPLE with over four years of experience working in the digit ...

They went unsolved for over a decade until the suspect, Manhattan architect and Massapequa Park, LI, resident Rex Heuermann, 61, was arrested in 2023 for murdering seven women. “When I learned ...

File photo shows supporters of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte attend a protest in Helsinki, Finland, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) GOVERNMENT security forces are ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...