AstroForge's mission of landing on and mining asteroids has hit some snags, including technical difficulties during their first launch.
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope indicates Psyche could be covered in water and a chemical that combines with iron to form rust.
The Ramses mission would stalk the asteroid as it barrels toward our planet.
An upcoming Chinese mission will attempt to deflect a small asteroid in the ultimate showdown of planetary defense.
Webb data suggests a massive dust cloud observed 20 years ago around Beta Pictoris was caused by a cataclysmic asteroid collision.
The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029.
Asteroid Kamo’oalewa, discovered in 2016, has puzzled astronomers with its unusual Earth-like orbit.
Engineers struggled to open the sample canister for months, but it was all worth it for twice the amount of asteroid they thought they were getting.
The asteroid Bennu, touched by a spacecraft in 2020, could have a spectacular history.
The space agency is hosting a workshop for low cost missions to study Apophis despite having two probes in storage that could fit the bill.
The asteroid-sleuthing probe is transitioning from its orbit around the Sun to one beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
After months of struggling to get to the bulk of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample, the space agency has unveiled a treasure trove of ancient rocks and dust.
The space agency has been struggling with two pesky fasteners that, for months, stood in the way of the precious Bennu sample.
After dropping off samples from asteroid Bennu to Earth, the newly rebranded mission is headed to asteroid Apophis to stir up its surface.
The space agency is having to develop new tools to crack open the canister containing bits from asteroid Bennu.
The Psyche mission will examine a metal-rich asteroid believed to have once been a planetary building block.
The NASA mission hit the jackpot with its first target, observing the first known contact binary asteroid in orbit.
If NASA ever manages to pry open the sample canister, that is.
The NASA mission's first close flyby came with an exciting surprise: Dinkinesh is a binary asteroid featuring not one but two space rocks.
A team of researchers posit that silicate dust had an outsized impact on our prehistoric predecessors.
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