NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

The Earth is getting a second 'mini-moon' later this month, but it'll only last from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, researchers say.

Earth will soon have a visitor — and not of the extraterrestrial kind. Astronomers found a small asteroid that will orbit our ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Minuscule meteoroids slamming into the lunar surface could be kicking up most of the atoms that make up the lunar exosphere.

Meteorites can vary greatly in size. While some are tiny, resembling grains of sand, others can weigh several tons. The ...

China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.

A Canadian outdoor enthusiast may have discovered evidence of a previously undiscovered ancient meteorite impact site.

American space agency NASA has confirmed that early on Wednesday afternoon, over Luzon Island in the Philippines, a minor asteroid, about the size of a meter, broke apart in Earth's atmosphere.

A fascinating celestial event is on the horizon as asteroid 2024 RF, a space rock approximately 50 feet in diameter, is set to pass near Earth on September 6. This asteroid, about the length of a ...

From what we can see, and comparing it with what we know from other samples around the world, the meteorite looks like it’s part of an achondrite sub-group known as HED (howardite–eucrite–diogenite).