It’s believed to be the broken fragment of a much larger asteroid. During a two-year survey, Osiris-Rex found Bennu to be a chunky rubble pile full of boulders and craters. The surface was so ... the ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

The probe, which previously visited asteroid Bennu, will investigate Apophis in June 2029, after the asteroid’s April 2029 flyby of Earth. NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Brushes the Sun on Its Way to New ...

By slamming 23 Long March 5 rockets into the asteroid Bennu, which will swing within 4.6 million miles (7.4 million km) of Earth's orbit between the years 2175 and 2199, scientists hope to divert ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued an asteroid watch today, alerting residents around the globe to an asteroid that ...

of Earth's surface—closer than the geostationary satellites that orbit the planet. This close approach will offer a rare, unfiltered view of the asteroid for those in the Eastern Hemisphere.

During that time, the mission will observe how the surface of the asteroid changes from being in such close proximity to Earth, the European Space Agency said in July. The expedition is all part ...

Mini-moons can also be asteroids that come from the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, or they may be fragments of the lunar surface launched by asteroid impacts millions of ...