NASA has identified an asteroid rich in valuable metals like gold and platinum. Named 16 Psyche, has enough resources to make ...

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 delivered samples of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth back in 2020, and since then, teams of ...

A Ryugu asteroid sample has been found contaminated by terrestrial microbes, raising questions about planetary protection.

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ...

The idea that Earth has only one moon is considered to be true, but that isn't always the case. In fact, sometimes, it's had ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

Asteroid Ryugu was altered by water and contains organic molecules older than the Sun. The building blocks of RNA and Vitamin ...

Currently, more than 2 million miles away, the object is too small and faint to see without a powerful telescope.

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

The samples were collected by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused ...

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...