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

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

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

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

On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Pittsburgh acquired Metcalf in March for a 2025 second-round pick, and he agreed to a five-year, $150 million extension with ...

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