Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

NASA’s study of Bennu reveals why its rocky surface behaves like sand. The answer lies in cracks deep inside its boulders.

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a “safe” ...

Three asteroids namely 2026 FA asteroid, 2026 EF2 asteroid and 2026 ED3 asteroid, will fly near Earth on March 19, 2026. NASA ...

Two asteroids namely VO142 and 2026 EZ2 will fly past safely on March 17. NASA is monitoring both closely for science and safety.

The asteroid, with a diameter of 710 meters, completes a full rotation in just 1.9 minutes, far quicker than what is ...

TOKYO -- All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have been found in rock samples that Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe brought back from the Ryugu ･･･ ...

The discovery of a new tektite-strewn field in northeastern Brazil points to a large meteorite impact—but geologists have yet to find the crater.

Bennu looked far different up close than scientists expected, and that mismatch led to a deeper investigation into how asteroid surfaces behave. What researchers found in returned samples helped ...

For 20 years, NASA’s ALaMO Observatory has tracked meteors and lunar impacts, providing continuous data on space hazards and ...