In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth ...

Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

When a massive asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, the solution seems straightforward; smash a spacecraft into it and knock it off course.

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that brings it to Earth.

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will skim safely past Earth, where it will be visible to billions. For scientists, it's a once-in-a ...

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great ...

Learn how fragments from asteroid Ryugu provide evidence of water flowing within asteroids formed in the early Solar System.

On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass so close to Earth that it will be visible to the naked eye for over two ...