The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Where Is everybody? The answer to Fermi's famous paradox may be lurking closer than we expected... and it could involve ...

Budget cuts hitting U.S. government agencies like NASA don't seem promising for the Hubble Space Telescope, but there is ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most of them are found in the main asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of ...

As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

About exactly four years from now, the asteroid Apophis will swing past Earth on April 13, 2029. This space rock, measuring ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...