When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team.

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...

NASA has issued an important update today about a notable cosmic event. A massive 300-foot asteroid, comparable to the size ...

The asteroid will pass by our planet at a distance of 1.01 million miles—about four times the distance between Earth and the ...

But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.

Studying Bennu is imperative because the asteroid has a slim shot of eventually hitting Earth. NASA said in a 2021 paper from ...

The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...

NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on ...

Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar has captured a series of images of the peanut-shaped asteroid making its ...