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

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could such a lunar collision create a dangerous ...

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

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

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

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...