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

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.

The asteroid is believed to be now 11 meters (36 feet) across, spinning on its axis every five minutes, and has a peculiar composition. The discovery has massive implications for the mission. One of ...

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

The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft visited the asteroid Ryugu, which had flowing water for over a billion years. This unexpected discovery, made when the spacecraft collected and returned samples, adds ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

Andrews’s article notes that the cause of the observed acceleration of some items passing through our solar system is unclear ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The destination is part of an extended mission, called Hayabusa 2, following ...