Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

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"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

NASA/Keegan Barber You wrote about another mission ... There are so many. I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and challenged us. The most surprising thing that ...

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Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...