The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own. These belts, analogous to the Kuiper and asteroid belts in our Solar System ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar ... system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

And so our probes have mostly plied the relatively cozy confines inside the asteroid belt ... stream of high-quality data, and it’s been doing it for almost 15 years now. The Solar Dynamics ...

Finding this organic material on Benu means that the building blocks of life could have come from an asteroid, and in our early solar system ... was the relatively high abundance of nitrogen ...

In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid ... in our Solar System. Some of these bodies include Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt between ...