WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A NASA probe orbiting an asteroid over 100 million miles from Earth will make a perilous attempt on Tuesday to snatch a sample from the celestial body’s rocky surface to ...

LONDON (APTN/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Scientists have discovered particles older than our solar system in a sample from the asteroid Bennu, brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft. The ...

A small asteroid just gave the Earth a close buzz. The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at 8:49 p.m. EDT ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid the size of a school bus is headed our way, but NASA says the space rock will zoom safely past Earth on Thursday. The newly discovered asteroid will come within ...

An asteroid the size of a house passed the Earth Wednesday, eventually reaching a distance closer to Earth than the moon, according to AccuWeather. The newly discovered Asteroid 2020 GH2 passed within ...

Earth may get a new "mini-moon" soon. But it's probably just an old rocket booster from 1966. The mysterious extraterrestrial object once called "asteroid 2020 SO" now appears to be an old rocket from ...

The label "space rock" feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window to get someone's attention. A rock holds down your picnic blanket to keep it ...

Astronomers spotted an asteroid that made an extraordinarily close pass by Earth, a little above the altitude of the International Space Station (ISS). The small, giraffe-size asteroid called "2025 TF ...