Take the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu. Japan’s space agency (JAXA) confirmed that both are carbon-filled, rubble piles after ...

Earth will soon experience close encounters with three large asteroids, although none are expected to collide with our planet ...

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...

REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) is closely monitoring three large asteroids set to pass Earth within the next two days, posing no collision threat.

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

Two very different asteroid families may share the same ancient roots, linked by a rare mineral fingerprint and revealed ...

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

The latest city-killer asteroid updates suggest Asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss Earth entirely, leading astronomers to breathe a sigh of relief.

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system’s main belt, down to the size of around a kilometer in diameter. But smaller asteroids were ...