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 ...

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

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

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

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 ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration analyses the samples from asteroid Bennu, unveiling a complex history of ...

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

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