SpaceX and the European Space Agency will launch a mission on Monday to an asteroid's moon. NASA tried to knock off its path ...

With a hurricane approaching, two high-priority NASA and European missions to an asteroid and Jupiter's moon Europa face delays.

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Europe’s first planetary defense mission — a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test — will launch as early as ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has once again captured the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts alike, delivering ...

Scientists are studying whether future astronauts on deep-space journeys could transform compounds in asteroids into food.

Rather than decry billionaires in space, consider the billions of people with a stake in space exploration.

If you were hoping to see the “mini moon,” you’ve probably been disappointed. But experts say the asteroid was an important ...

Cracks running through samples of asteroid Ryugu were probably formed by the repeated thawing and freezing of water inside it ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

After a four-week hiatus, NASA has republished a document seeking ideas for how to repurpose a pair of smallsats for an asteroid mission, removing many technical details about those spacecraft in ...

We are in a new and different kind of moon race, one the U.S. is losing. To win, says a former NASA official, we need new ...