Asteroid

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon’s orbit this weekend.

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded.

New research into the durability and age of an ancient asteroid made of rocky rubble and dust, revealed significant findings that could contribute to potentially saving the planet if one ever hurtled toward Earth.

Launched nearly a year ago, NASA’s Dart spacecraft was destroyed in the head-on collision.

The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced plans to send a probe to land on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.

The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought.