From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

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With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in ...

GLASSBORO - Dr. Harold Connolly will wait seven years for his asteroid samples to return from space on a $1 billion mission. In the meantime, the bow-tied geologist and admitted geek, is building a ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...

Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space ...

A NASA probe orbiting an asteroid over 100 million miles from Earth will make a perilous attempt on Tuesday to snatch a sample from the celestial body’s rocky surface to bring home the space agency’s ...

When the Bennu capsule returned to Earth scientists expected fragments of ancient rock What they found instead offered new clues about how planets form and how life may have begun in the early solar s ...

Fresh analysis of Cassini data has revealed new complex organic molecules inside ice grains spewing from Enceladus. These ...

Parents and young kids ran for cover in East Patchogue Sunday morning after a gun was recovered outside a pee wee football game. Suffolk police say it happened after a fight involving a group of ...