The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a speed of some 11,453 miles per hour, according to the space ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

DNA from a distance ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases—the molecular "letters" of life—have been detected in samples from the ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

A loud boom heard across Cleveland on Tuesday morning could have been caused by a meteorite, according to the National ...

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected ...

A sample from the Ryugu asteroid has been revealed to contain all five “building blocks for life on Earth,” according to the ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth ...