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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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

On September 26, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, successfully smashed into a non-Earth-threatening asteroid named Dimorphos after a 10-month journey. Success in this case was ...