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

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

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

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

An asteroid the size of an airplane is now heading towards Earth, and scientists are watching closely. How close will asteroid 2025 PR pass? NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 PR is on course. The ...

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

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered over 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of Bennu ’s soil to Earth in 2023, is the largest haul of ...