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

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

NASA’s Lucy mission flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh this week, and the images it captured revealed not one but two space rocks.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On Wednesday, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft zoomed by its first asteroid target — and scientists on the mission were shocked to discover that the rock, named Dinkinesh, was actually two rocks.The ...

But another NASA sample return mission, named Genesis, cratered when it came back to Earth in 2004 with particles from the solar wind. Its parachutes never deployed, and the capsule ruptured when ...

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 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 ...