Asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the largest and most enigmatic objects in the asteroid belt, is set to be the focal point of ...

Forget the gold pans; people in Northeast Ohio are reaching for magnets and metal detectors. Following a spectacular “once-in-a-lifetime” fireball that rattled windows across the state on Tuesday, ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ingredients of life may be common in the solar system.

A NASA spacecraft has set out on its six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. The Psyche mission aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Friday morning toward ...

Researchers clarified that this update does not indicate a change in the asteroid's orbit. New observations from NASA's powerful space telescope have helped scientists better understand the path of a ...

NASA has ruled out the possibility of asteroid 2024 YR4 crashing into the Moon in 2032, following new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS might have stolen ...

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into a binary asteroid system. By intentionally ramming a probe into the 160-meter-wide moonlet named Dimorphos ...

Here's one less thing to worry about—or to look forward to: NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032. Last year, the uncertainty surrounding the space ...

In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kilometers per hour). The mission aimed to test whether NASA could one day ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...