The European Space Agency’s Hera mission is the first to send a spacecraft and two CubeSats to an asteroid in deep space.

Saturn has finally joined the solar system's other giant planets in possessing a Trojan asteroid, but it may have stolen it.

Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

An asteroid's orbit may reveal an invisible fifth force that could rewrite the rules of physics. Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid ...

The European Space Agency's upcoming Ramses mission aims to study asteroid Apophis, which will approach Earth closely in 2029. While new findings suggest a slim chance of collision, the odds remain ...

Although we can still see comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in our sky, astronomers are already preparing for another ...

The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

The European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB to begin work on an asteroid mission, but a decision on full funding for the mission is still more than a year away.

The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...

A research team used Bennu's tracking data to investigate the potential existence of a fifth fundamental force in the ...