NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Hera will be beginning a two-year journey past Mars and out to the asteroid belt where it will help us understand how to ...

Named for the asteroid it’s chasing, Psyche should reach the huge ... with a dull, predominantly gray surface likely covered with fine metal grains from cosmic impacts. Otherwise, it’s a speck of ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

Spread the loveFor decades, Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, was considered a dry and dusty world. But recent ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

The bouncy bot was designed by university students in Switzerland for exploring microgravity environments, such as asteroids.

Blue boulders have been seen on the surface of Mars in a vast crater believed to have been created by an asteroid.

Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos as a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

We usually think we have to smash particles together at close to the speed of light or observe remote corners of the universe ...

Meandering between Mars and Jupiter, an asteroid named Psyche holds an estimated worth of a staggering $10,000 quadrillion.