The asteroid Bennu orbits the sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 ...

The asteroid Bennu orbits the Sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 ...

Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters) ...

Asteroid 2023 BU is about the size of a box truck and is predicted to make one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded. On Thursday, Jan. 26, a small near-Earth asteroid will ...

After a 500 million mile journey, a piece of the asteroid Bennu is now on display at the Smithsonian. But how did it get here? Ellyn Lapointe The Smithsonian is the first institution to display a ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but sometimes you find something much older.

AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the competition to find out which one. By Jonathan O’Callaghan For generations, Western space missions have largely ...