An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

The probe flew 3,438 kilometres above Earth during its swing. It moved closer than several high-orbit satellites circling the ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

A UA-led telescope atop of Mount Graham has captured the first glimpse of an asteroid-bound spacecraft since its launch in September 2016. The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, an international ...

Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid. A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned with samples from Bennu in 2023. Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid. The samples contained the building blocks of life and provide more evidence that asteroids may ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has been given a side job during its seven-year cruise to study and sample an asteroid named Bennu. The NASA spacecraft’s cameras will be looking for ...

Read full article: NASA spacecraft successfully ‘kisses’ asteroid to bring back sample to Earth This May 18, 1969 photo made available by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as ...

The University of Arizona behind OSIRIS-REx talk about the space robot like it’s their baby, because it is: They built it, they raised it (it takes a village, you know), and when the time came last ...

The manoeuvre adjusted the spacecraft's path and speed around the Sun, setting up a complex series of future orbits that will ...