Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

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"It's remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a century ago still have secrets to reveal ...

a team of researchers recently found that the most common types of meteorites landing on our planet today are debris from three cosmic collisions in the asteroid belt. An ordinary chondrite ...

A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) set to make a close approach to Earth in five years’ time.

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

The Massalia asteroid family, a population of asteroids ... from which they broke off before landing on Earth. “Such major collisions do not happen every day—every 30 to 50 million years ...

OSIRIS-REx circled the asteroid for 22 months to search for a landing spot, touching down to collect a 2-ounce (60 grams) sample from Bennu's surface that could contain the extraterrestrial ...