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

NASA's spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of the asteroid Bennu, using a robotic arm to collect around 120g of ...

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

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 moment humanity begins pulling wealth from asteroids, the balance of the world’s economy could change overnight.

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

The spacecraft was 290 million kilometers (180 million miles) from our planet when the image was snapped. The Earth and Moon ...

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

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...