RR5 is due to skim past at a distance of 130,000 miles away from Earth, nearly twice as close as the Moon at 240,000 miles.

After the DART spacecraft made contact with Dimorphos last year, the space rock's orbit is declining more than expected, ...

The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA scientists hoping to study its chemical composition.

A seven-year, 3.9-billion-mile journey ended Sunday when NASA landed a time capsule in the Utah desert. This capsule ...

A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...

Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...

Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½-pound sample of rocks and dust from an asteroid ...

It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...

A large asteroid as wide as the wingspan of a Boeing 747 passed by the Earth recently – and scientists didn't even see it coming. Dubbed 2021 SG, according to the NASA-backed International ...

After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid that will ...

Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...