NASA tracking plane-sized asteroid approaching Earth

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

Bright fireball lights up Michigan skies. Did it fall to earth?

The meteor, which broke up and may have fallen to earth, lit up the Michigan sky around 6 p.m. Video recordings of the fireball were shared across social media. The streaking object was seen across ...
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NASA just made a major asteroid discovery that suggests alien life exists

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

"Space gum" and sugars discovered in asteroid Bennu samples, NASA reveals

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

What is 'space gum?' New analysis of Bennu asteroid yields surprising finds

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

Building Blocks of Life Found on Near-Earth Asteroid Could Reveal New Clues About Life in the Universe

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

Asteroid hurtling toward Earth found to be teeming with building blocks of life: researchers

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Moment of Science: “Bioessential sugars” found in asteroid samples

It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re ...

Asteroid loaded with amino acids offers new clues about the origin of life on Earth

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...