NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Cracks running through samples of asteroid Ryugu were probably formed by the repeated thawing and freezing of water inside it ...

This October, the astronomy world will be abuzz with night-sky happenings, from a bright and potentially naked-eye-visible ...

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On September 27, the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Mauna Loa in Hawai'i spotted the ...

After a four-week hiatus, NASA has republished a document seeking ideas for how to repurpose a pair of smallsats for an asteroid mission, removing many technical details about those spacecraft in ...

An asteroid named 2024 RH45 is set to fly past Earth today at 10:24 pm. Measuring 110 feet, roughly the size of a commercial ...

To qualify as a mini-moon, an asteroid must be relatively close to Earth, within 4.5 million kilometers, and travel at a ...

Earth's natural satellite—the moon—is currently welcoming a temporary “mini-moon” named 2024 PT5. What is the mini moon? Why ...

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

NASA is closely monitoring these asteroids as they travel through space. This event simply showcases the many intriguing ...

Europe is circling back to Dimorphos—the asteroid that NASA had pushed off course. Europe's space agency is launching the ...