A recent study of microscopic grains collected from Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft found the tiny space rock harbors ...

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in October 2026, it won't just be peering into the distant universe to ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago ...

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 interstellar object detected on July 1 by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System project has sparked debate ...

NASA has confirmed the rock is heading on course. The asteroid is around 120 feet wide in size. It travels at nearly 28,482 miles every single hour.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

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

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 ...

Asteroid 6 Hebe is now at opposition in Aquarius. It is visible all night, best seen shortly after midnight.

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