NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission brought home about a half-cup of crushed rocks and dirt from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Credit: NASA Goddard / University of Arizona illustration In one study, a ...

In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

NASA’s has been busy tracking a trio of sizable asteroids hurtling past Earth’s orbit, one traveling as close as 361,000 miles from us. While scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) assured ...

NASA is scheduled to launch a "planetary defense-driven test" late Tuesday night. The goal of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is to adjust the speed and path of an asteroid by using ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...