It has been estimated that if a giant space rock that is just 11 or 12 kilometers wide hit us it would “wipe out most ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

In September 2023, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer ...

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...

The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away.

NASA’s DART mission was designed to redirect an asteroid, but the collision produced unexpected results that scientists still ...

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf is set to star in a new movie with Academy Award nominee Hailee Steinfeld.

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4, a building-sized object that initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...