An asteroid the size of a house is due to soar past Earth today, coming twice as close to our planet as the moon's orbit.This asteroid, named 2023 RR5, is estimated to be around 20 feet in diameter, ...

OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016, five years after the project was selected by NASA to be the agency’s third ...

This orbital diagram from CNEOS’s close approach viewer shows 2023 BU’s trajectory – in red – during its close approach with ...

The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA scientists hoping to study its chemical composition.

Today marks the final step of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which launched in September 2016, as a small capsule containing a sample of the asteroid Bennu descends through the Earth’s atmosphere ...

You may have heard about a NASA probe that successfully brought some samples from a deep-space asteroid back to Earth. It ...

A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...

In Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (streaming now on Peacock), a group of students and parents arrive at the titular fictional ...

It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...

A large asteroid as wide as the wingspan of a Boeing 747 passed by the Earth recently – and scientists didn't even see it coming. Dubbed 2021 SG, according to the NASA-backed International ...

Researchers at the University of Manchester's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences will study new NASA asteroid samples.

Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...