An asteroid the size of an airplane is now heading towards Earth, and scientists are watching closely. How close will asteroid 2025 PR pass? NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 PR is on course. The ...

Scientists have analysed samples from the Bennu asteroid (pictured), which resembles the Death Star space station in the Star ...

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

Scientists working with return samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a cosmic time ...

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 ...

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

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

A new study suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres once supplied a steady stream of chemical energy and may have been habitable.

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

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...