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.

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Asteroid Apophis, or "God of Chaos," will pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. This rare encounter offers scientists a ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as ...

To celebrate the successful launch of NASA's Europa Clipper mission, the agency's Astrobiology program has released a new ...