Slated for a 2027 launch, NASA's NEO Surveyor mission is advancing through critical testing phases to enhance our planetary ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found ...

NASA's findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor mission, launching in 2027, uses advanced infrared tech to detect asteroids and comets, ensuring ...

NASA has issued an alert about two asteroids, 2025 BY1 and 2025 BS2, that are set to make close approaches to Earth on ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...