The spacecraft kissed the surface of astroid Bennu a little after 6 p.m. ET. A NASA spacecraft briefly touched the surface of an asteroid, attempted to collect a sample of extraterrestrial rocks ...

The probe has been mapping the asteroid’s surface, studying its composition and beaming back photos of the space rock, which is about as tall as the Empire State Building, according to NASA.

Dante Lauretta didn’t expect the surface of the asteroid to be, as he puts it, “fluffy.” As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descended toward asteroid Bennu to grab a sample of its surface ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

A recent study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled new insights into the mysterious asteroid ...

A chunk of the Martian surface that at some point crashed into Earth sold Wednesday, July 16 to an anonymous bidder for a ...

Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.

Variations in color and reflectance on the surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu. Science, 2020; eabc3660 DOI: 10.1126/science.abc3660; ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

We succeeded in deflecting an asteroid, moving it from its orbit.” These are the words of Tony Farnham, author of the just-released analysis of the DART mission. They ring with a victory in planetary ...

Scientists have detected water molecules on the surface of an asteroid in space for the first time. The findings reveal new details about how water is distributed in the solar system and are ...

Ryugu is a neat freak. The surface of the small, near-Earth asteroid is surprisingly free of dust, observations from the German and French MASCOT lander show. The asteroid, thought to have formed ...