Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

“The last complete image of asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, taken by the DRACO imager on NASA’s DART mission from ~7 miles (12 kilometers) from the asteroid and 2 seconds before impact. The image shows a ...

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission brought back 4.29 ounces of rocks and dust from Bennu, making it the largest asteroid sample collected in space.

The mission’s chief purpose is to follow in DART’s shadow and understand what damage humanity’s first asteroid strike actually left on its target. [Related: NASA has major plans for ...

A NASA spacecraft nudged a small, harmless asteroid aside in deep space, the agency announced Tuesday in Washington, D.C., shifting the asteroid's orbit in a test mission to save the Earth.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is set to launch on Oct. 12, beginning its mission to investigate a giant metal asteroid of the same name and unravel the secrets of the early solar system.

As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descended toward asteroid Bennu to grab a sample of its surface materials, mission principal investigator Lauretta and his team knew the process would leave a ...

A NASA illustration shows the 16 Psyche asteroid and the Psyche space probe (inset). This asteroid is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals like gold, platinum ...

Then, in 2015, a NASA spacecraft got a closer look at the unusual bright patches visible on Ceres' surface. Through the Dawn mission , scientists learned that Ceres was an ocean world .

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.