NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

New research overturns the idea that dinosaurs were already dying out before the asteroid hit.

The US space agency NASA said it is tracking an asteroid the size of a house that is passing by Earth at a speed of 68,075 ...

Discovered in 2003 by Saanich-based astronomer Dave Balam, the kilometre-wide space rock now officially carries the name of ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA Scientists previously studied Vesta’s interior structure using gravity and shape data from ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

NASA has alerted the public about asteroid 2024 JM2, which is set to make its closest approach to Earth on May 3, 2025.

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.