Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered over 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of Bennu ’s soil to Earth in 2023, is the largest haul of ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.