The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

On March 21, 2021, an object the size of the Empire State Building—traveling at 77,000 miles per hour—passed within 1.25 ...

NASA has identified an asteroid roughly comparable in size to the Empire State Building, traveling through space at about ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

December is an exciting month for those who like to look up, with a comet, a meteor shower, and a conjunction between the ...

Bennu is a primitive rock. It has remained mostly unchanged since the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago. On September 24, 2023, dust and mineral samples were hauled to Earth by ...

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

A security camera in Tecumseh, Michigan, captured a meteor streaking across the sky early on November 23, one of dozens of ...

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

The Geminids peak annually in mid-December and are always one of the most brilliant meteor showers of the year. December’s ...