We're plenty capable of launching spacecraft and parking them around asteroids. NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission (now OSIRIS-APEX) ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A massive asteroid will experience earthquake-like tremors when it makes a historic close approach to Earth in 2029, ...

Observers in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to see the asteroid streak across the sky with the naked eye. NASA plans to ...

New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

The team plans to look for more evidence of distal nebular fields with samples from another far-off asteroid, Bennu, which were delivered to Earth in September 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.