X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

Take the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu. Japan’s space agency (JAXA) confirmed that both are carbon-filled, rubble piles after ...

Two very different asteroid families may share the same ancient roots, linked by a rare mineral fingerprint and revealed ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

Two asteroids, 2025 OB5 and 2025 QK3, as well as the smaller 2025 QB3, are all set to pass Earth on August 26.

Asteroid 2025 PM2, about 190 feet wide and travelling over 41,000 miles per hour, will make its closest pass by Earth on 27 ...

Earth will soon experience close encounters with three large asteroids, although none are expected to collide with our planet ...

REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

"Initially, it'll just be a new tool, an augmentation to the existing toolbelt of astronomical observatories. But ultimately, it should scale least expensively to the smallest or more distant ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in October 2026, it won't just be peering into the distant universe to ...