NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

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

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 ...

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

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...

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

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise orbit, the calculation usually gives scientists a cloud of its possible ...