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 ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar object ever discovered At 15 km wide, it’s larger and brighter than ʻOumuamua or Borisov Scientists will analyze its light to trace its system of origin ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 MG1 is approaching. The space rock, roughly 130 feet wide, will pass Earth on July 12.

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

A comet is hurtling into our solar system from interstellar space at about 152,000 miles per hour. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, was discovered by the ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

"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." ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.