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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe just nailed its second trial run for a sample collection attempt in October. The goal is to obtain samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu and then return ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Now, researchers have determined that the space rock ...

A building-sized asteroid will zoom by Earth Saturday, while another asteroid twice its size will make an even closer approach Monday, with NASA keeping an eye on the second asteroid due to its ...

A British scientist was the first person to see the rocky surface of the asteroid Eros as the American Near Shoemaker spacecraft historically touched down on it. Dr Louise Prockter, 36 ...

The California company also just raised $40 million from investors. Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to make history next year. The California company announced Tuesday (Aug. 20 ...

NEOWISE was a remarkable mission for several reasons, one of which was that it was never intended to be an asteroid observation mission at all. It was originally launched as WISE, the Wide-field ...

An asteroid approximately the size of two football fields is set to make a close approach to Earth this month. According to the New York Post, the 720-foot-wide asteroid named 2024 ON, will pass ...

A colossal asteroid slammed into Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with so much power it dramatically and permanently reoriented the moon roughly 4 billion years ago, new research suggests. Scientists ...

Scientists investigating the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago have released a new study suggesting that it formed "beyond the orbit of Jupiter." ...

Although researchers could not study a direct sample of the asteroid since it was destroyed, Tissot explained that dust from the impact fell back to Earth, allowing them to study the fine ...

A massive asteroid landed in the ocean near the Yucatán Peninsula in what is now Mexico. This city-sized asteroid was estimated to be somewhere between 6 miles and 9 miles across. It hit with so much ...