Misidentified bones that languished in the drawers of a Mongolian institute for 50 years belong to a new species of ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, untouched for 4.6 billion years. Scientists will study the carbon- and ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

An asteroid completes its 40-million miles journey from space to the Field Museum. FOX 32's Dane Placko has more on what ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations. While a moon impact wouldn't significantly alter ...

What was once dubbed a potential 'city-killer' asteroid for Earth has now had its sights redefined. New observations from ...

NASA has issued a disturbing update on the 'city destroying' asteroid that could hit the moon in some seven years.

There's only one Friday the 13th in 2025. That's good news for people who think it's bad luck. Why the fear? What to know ...

This time, the asteroid isn't thought to be on a collision course with Earth. Instead, it might crash into the surface of the ...