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

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 ...

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

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

Two asteroids will be passing perilously close to Earth in the near future. What do we know about them, and what preparations ...

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

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

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

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

Asteroid sample contains grains from before the sun. Bride-to-be reveals unfortunate new name she’ll have after marriage ...