Hayabusa2 is on an extended mission to collect another batch of samples from a tiny asteroid.

A new study pinpoints Bennu's birthplace to a specific zone between the inner and outer solar system.

A new study narrows the timeline for the emergence of life on Earth.

Until now, the timing of the formation of the asteroid, as well as the parent body, itself, had remained uncertain.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — Mars has two tiny moons that lack a confirmed origin story for how they came to orbit the red planet — b...

NASA says 55-meter asteroid 2026 OE1 will pass Earth tomorrow at 1.82 million miles.

When the famous Chicxulub asteroid struck what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, it ended the reign of the nonavian di...

Nysa has a strange, three-lobed structure with two prominent valleys wrapped around it.

In a surefire sign Hollywood has reached the desperation stage of its insatiable hunger for video game properties to swallow up and spit out...

Ever had something named after you? Imagine that honor being a "minor planet."This week marks 32 years since the International Astronomical...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has snapped a new set of Mars photos.

The asteroid 1998 SH2 is actually not an asteroid at all.

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in th...

Up to 90% of Earth's population may be able to see the enormous "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis zoom past our planet in less than three year...

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)This artist’s concept depicts a near-Earth asteroid with an...