The samples, which were scooped up by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a brief yet dramatic touchdown on Bennu in 2020, ...

Asteroid 2025 QV5, which was first spotted in late August, will make a close approach to Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 3). It ...

PM Modi’s mention of Chandrayaan-5 highlights growing competition between China and Japan in space exploration, sparking ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth on August 16 at around 17,717 miles per hour. Known as 2025 PR1, the space rock is estimated to be about 55 feet across and will ...

By the time asteroid samples were delivered to Earth in 2023, a trio of OSIRIS-REx engineers and scientists had founded Ascending Node Technologies and revolutionized the space industry’s slow, siloed ...

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China. The probe will attempt to collect samples from asteroid 2016 HO3 and if all goes well ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.