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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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 ...

Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history.

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 ...

Asteroid number 5376, a five-mile-wide minor planet orbiting the sun every 3.75 years, will now be known as ‘Marutiakella.’ ...

After landing in the heavily-cratered Descartes ... as useful timestamps of space weather processes like solar wind and asteroid impacts that have helped shape and reshape the moon's surface ...