NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

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

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...