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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Unlike NASA's recent OSIRIS-REx mission, this effort will not return a sample of the asteroid. "Because we don't know what its surface looks like, we're not ready to land. We're not ready to ...

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.

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 ...

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 mission was selected as part of NASA's Discovery program in 2017. When it reaches orbit around Psyche, it will be the first time that humans have visited a metal asteroid. When is NASA ...

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.