Asteroids

Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust

The Australian company HEO Robotics wants to join efforts to study a rare space event, conducting its own flyby of the asteroid Apophis when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029.

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured stunning new images as it whipped past Earth during a high-speed slingshot maneuver, sending the probe on a fast track toward the asteroid Apophis.

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies."

After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new research reveals.

Siddharth Patel has been watching the sky since the age of five. Fresh off two possible asteroid discoveries, he's taking a big step toward his astronaut dream.

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest known asteroid in the solar system.

A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, safely flew by our planet on Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the distance to the moon.

From how space rocks wobble to where to hit them, scientists are learning the fine art of asteroid deflection — and it could one day save Earth.