The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...
On March 21, 2021, an object the size of the Empire State Building—traveling at 77,000 miles per hour—passed within 1.25 ...
With a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032, an asteroid named YR4’s potential collision course is being monitored by NASA.
These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...
An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis.
From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...
An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.
In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...
While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...
NASA will go live today to share long-awaited images of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Is it nearing Earth? How ...