Rubble Pile

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032.

Bennu samples also indicate it was part of an ancient water world

Scientists have analyzed images of the twin asteroids Didymos and Dimorphous taken by NASA's DART mission before it impacted the smaller space rock...

The DART mission has proven that we can substantially affect potentially hazardous asteroids.

In a bold extension of its mission, the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx embarks on a journey to explore asteroid Apophis.

The OSIRIS-REx sampling mission, a planetary defense prototype named DART and a spacecraft's ambitious journey to a metal world are just some of the...

What is Asteroid Bennu and how big is it? Learn what else NASA reveals about the first bits of the Asteroid Bennu samples brought successfully to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

A space capsule carrying NASA's first asteroid samples has landed in the Utah desert. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the capsule Sunday, following a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back. The capsule peeled away 63,000 miles from Earth, four hours ahead of the planned landing. Scientists expect to get at least a cup of rubble from Bennu. Japan collected about a teaspoon in a pair of asteroid missions.…

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

In a first for NASA, the OSIRIS-REx mission is delivering pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu that may contain clues about the origin of life.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission taught astronomers how little they know about space rocks. They might be only a few hundreds of feet wide, but their geology...

The Psyche mission will launch on October 5, 2023, on a mission to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Learn more about the mission and asteroid here. The post Psyche mission to explore priceless asteroid first appeared on EarthSky.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will soon return to Earth. What's on board could reveal the extraterrestrial origins of life on Earth.

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible.

"Every sample here has a story to tell."

New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a swarm of 37 boulders around the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA's DART mission intentionally hit.

In Samandag, the dump sites are another blow to a wounded town, sparking protests by residents and environmental activists, and fears of future health problems.

Scientists continue to pore over the results of NASA's stunningly successful DART test to deflect a harmless asteroid. As the latest findings suggest, the...

Ten months after NASA's DART spacecraft was aimed at a mini-asteroid, the probe hit the bull's eye today in a practice round for planetary defense that got...