The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

The net capture dynamics, comprising the net and nonlinear contact dynamics models, are constructed for the asteroid mission. The sliding mode control is applied for designing the controllers of the ...

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan from NASA, won't be on display for visitors, but will give scientists ...

NASA predicts a large asteroid could impact Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas. Asteroid Bennu, passes by Earth roughly every six years, experts have been closely ...

An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash into the Moon in 2032.

An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses growing lunar threat, reveals NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope In May 2025, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a detailed observation of asteroid 2024 YR4.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of slamming into the Moon in seven years.