NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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

New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...

When Apophis was discovered in 2004, initial calculations indicated that it could approach Earth with a risk of collision.

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the asteroid.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...