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

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

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

When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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