The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope discovered the interstellar comet 3I⧸ATLAS - NASA explains. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

This image taken from video shows a suspected meteor falling through the sky in the greate ...

NASA’s study of Bennu reveals why its rocky surface behaves like sand. The answer lies in cracks deep inside its boulders.

Researchers are still studying samples of Ryugu collected by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency from its Hayabusa2 mission. After the first papers focused on the composition ...

Schematic of a proposed space mining setup that literally bags asteroids. Credit: TransAstra. The aerospace industry has a new, highly ambitious (some might say crazy) plan for securing off-world ...

A multidisciplinary team led by Andrew Ryan has published new work that pins Bennu’s unexpectedly low thermal inertia on ...

These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show ...

A man found what appears to be a meteorite from that seven-ton asteroid that zoomed across Northeast Ohio at 40-thousand miles-per-hour Tuesday morning, says NASA, before fragmenting over Medina ...

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 ...

A study published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy presents evidence that the asteroid Ryugu contains all five of the nucleotide bases that make up the genetic code. That includes the ...

Meteorite hunters hailing from states away are flocking to Northeast Ohio to find fragments of the seven-ton asteroid that shook up St. Patrick’s Day.

A six-foot, six-ton asteroid passed over northeastern Ohio on March 17, bringing the possibility of fragmented pieces scattered across a wide area.