An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ... Here are the 3 I love going back ...

In a remarkable demonstration of both the unpredictability of space and the extraordinary capabilities of modern astronomical detection, a small asteroid, designated 2024 UQ, recently made headlines ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

An asteroid, then, is “a time capsule,” says ... into the ground and crack open like a Fabergé egg. At around 2:00 a.m. local time, the team agreed to kickstart the autonomous landing sequence.

By 8:44 a.m., the capsule was 102,300 feet above the ground ... whether he wanted to steal parts of an asteroid and bring it back to Earth. The idea appealed to Drake, a straight-talking planetary ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to better understand the solar system’s early history and the origins of materials ...