The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

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 ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 1997 QK1, a massive rock roughly 990 feet wide, will make its closest approach to Earth on ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some improvements to its trajectory along the way. A new paper suggests it might ...