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

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

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

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

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

Material older than the sun has been found 200 million miles from Earth by a NASA spacecraft. "Presolar grains" - the dust of ...

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

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

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

NASA's spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of the asteroid Bennu, using a robotic arm to collect around 120g of ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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