SCIENTISTS do not have much time to deflect an asteroid a size of a football pitch that is hurtling towards Earth, an expert ...

News Chief Rob Garner shares NASA Goddard's story with the public, supporting writers and creators in the Office of ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.

The asteroid was first spotted in late December. (Getty/Stock image) ...

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch could be on course to smash into Earth at Christmas ...

NASA researchers have discovered organic compounds and minerals essential for life in samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Space rocks likely delivered the building blocks of life to ...

For one, they found exceptionally high concentrations of ammonia — “about 100 times more ... scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “This is a future area of study for ...

Sergio McKenzie, a 25-year IT veteran, has been appointed as chief information officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, according to a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. “[I’m] truly ...

An artist's rendering depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-and-Go Sample Arm Mechanism.

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building blocks of life like amino acids.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...