Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could such a lunar collision create a dangerous ...

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...

The concept of asteroid mining has captured the imagination of scientists, investors, and the public, promising a new ...

Dust scooped up from an asteroid by a NASA spacecraft 200 million miles from Earth has been found to contain material that is ...