The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

It has been estimated that if a giant space rock that is just 11 or 12 kilometers wide hit us it would “wipe out most ...

Mundane wayward space rock, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system's latest and only third ...

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

In September 2023, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer ...

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...

The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away.

A giant asteroid once considered a potential danger to Earth is now on course toward the Moon. Scientists are watching closely to see what happens when it passes through our neighborhood.

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...