See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...