NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a building-sized object that initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A massive asteroid, 1997 QK1, is set to safely pass Earth on August 20, 2025, at a distance of 1.87 million miles. While not ...

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 ...

Planetary defence has become a critical global effort, uniting space agencies like NASA, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO to detect, track ...

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