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

"It turns out that they're really cracked too, and that was the missing piece of the puzzle." ...

A rock measuring 900 meters is on a journey through our solar system, providing what is arguably one of the strongest pieces ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

Because contemplating the vast, never-ending universe now feels infinitely more manageable than reading another update about ...

A multidisciplinary team led by Andrew Ryan has published new work that pins Bennu’s unexpectedly low thermal inertia on ...

It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a “safe” ...

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 minutes There are roughly 250 small, near-Earth asteroids teeming with ...

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, scientists said Monday.

Space is full of terrifying possibilities, but most cosmic disasters are extremely unlikely to ever reach us. Solar flares ...