Soil-like pebbles in moon samples brought home by Apollo 16 astronauts have revealed new details about lunar history.

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

A giant 500-foot asteroid is coming toward the Earth at breakneck speed and will make its closest approach on October 28, ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

Prior to the Apollo mission research there were three theories about how the Moon formed. The evidence returned from these missions gave us today's most widely accepted theory. Capture theory suggests ...

Nonetheless, the experiment was perhaps most famously demonstrated by Apollo 15 astronaut David ... pound (550 kilograms), $314 million Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into ...