ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from beyond our solar system, has prompted an international scientific tracking campaign led ...

With 3I/ATLAS just days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies around the globe are conducting the largest ...

The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close. Interstellar ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...