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 ...

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

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

The spacecraft, previously used in the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect samples from asteroid Bennu, will observe Apophis for 18 months after its flyby. The mission aims to analyse the gravitational ...

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

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

Observers in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to see the asteroid streak across the sky with the naked eye. NASA plans to ...

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...