New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

Scientists all over the world are celebrating because of a discovery made by a telescope's camera built in the Bay Area.

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Researchers have discovered 19 unusually fast-spinning asteroids, including one that is the fastest known rotator of its size, using data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

Far from our own solar system, astronomers have finally watched what planetary scientists have long predicted but never ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...