Asteroids

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Friday (Aug. 12).

NASA astronauts test a prototype spacesuit for lunar exploration at the agency's Kennedy Space Center.

Astronomers are planning a fishing trip to land an extraterrestrial interloper on Earth: a small meteorite from another star system that crashed into the Pacific Ocean in January 2014.

Russia launches possible stalker spacecraft, Russia clarifies its International Space Station departure timeline, and Blue Origin launches six people to space.

NASA astronomers discovered that a large asteroid would zoom past Earth on Aug. 4, missing our planet by millions of miles.

Two asteroids, 2016 CZ31 and 2013 CU83, are headed toward Earth for back-to-back flybys this weekend.

Graphene found interlocked with diamonds inside an ancient meteorite could be the key to superfast, supercharged tech.

In addition to supplying data on 2 billion stars throughout the Milky Way, Gaia has provided information about some smaller bodies closer to home.

Cracks and fractures in Bennu's surface seem to have been caused by heat from the sun, stunning images from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have shown.

Pioneering new telescope surveys that use only the 10 minutes before sunrise and after sunset are searching for eccentric asteroids. They're finding some strange things.

China wants to change the trajectory of asteroid 2020 PN1 as part of planetary defense programs.

A Chinese university has begun constructing an array of more than 20 large radar antennas to track potentially hazardous asteroids.

Snap, crackle, pop! Dust 'hopping' on asteroids might influence how these small bodies migrate through space.

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is moving into a review after software testing issues forced an extended launch delay to at least July 2023. Its future remains uncertain.

NASA shared a new collection of images of the mile-wide asteroid that passed safely by Earth in May.

NASA's asteroid-sampling spacecraft OSIRIS-REx had a near-death experience at Bennu, according to the mission team.

Asteroid Bennu nearly swallowed the OSIRIS-REx probe when it touched down on the rock to collect a sample, revealing that the space rock's nature was much different than scientists had thought.

A space rock at least the size of a bus will safely whiz by our planet today, and you can watch the event on a free livestream.

When a tiny space rock hit the asteroid Bennu, it caused a landslide across the space rock and a massive crater.

A stubborn solar array on the NASA Lucy mission might yield enough to allow the mission to continue its asteroid-hunting mandate with few issues, NASA reports.