Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft visited the asteroid Ryugu, which had flowing water for over a billion years. This unexpected discovery, made when the spacecraft collected and returned samples, adds ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth itself. When the capsule was opened in 2023, scientists were stunned by the ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu was previously covered in flowing water, say researchers examining samples returned by JAXA's ...

A ONCE-in-a-millennium mega asteroid will be visible to billions without the need for any equipment as it glides past Earth.

Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

Asteroid Apophis will skim closer than satellites in 2029—visible to the naked eye, reshaped by Earth’s gravity, and turning ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...