Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest ...

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new ...

Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

A bus-sized asteroid is due to zip past our planet today, skimming closer to us than our own moon.The asteroid, named 2024 ...

Open star clusters sparkle as Luna and Venus line up and Jupiter’s moons jockey for position in the sky this week.

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

A Ryugu asteroid sample has been found contaminated by terrestrial microbes, raising questions about planetary protection.

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ...

Deep beneath Greenland's ice, NASA radar happened upon Camp Century, a long-lost Cold War base now buried under 100 feet of ...