Space is bustling with rocks and dust, and occasionally, larger asteroids capture public attention. One such asteroid, 2023 ...

On Thursday night, a Japanese spacecraft will try to fire a bullet at a giant rock in space. If it succeeds, it could help advance understanding of how our planet formed in the early solar system. In ...

Jan. 9 -- Scientists remotely steering an automobile-sized spacecraft saythey will end its unparalleled yearlong mission with anunprecedented finale: an attempted landing on the surface of anasteroid.

Japan's space agency will attempt to land a robotic unmanned landing craft on the surface of an asteroid 300 million-kilometers (186.4 million-miles) away from Earth next month. The Hayabusa-2 ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin are taking seriously the sci-fi idea of landing a team of astronauts on an asteroid. The team would gather data helpful in preventing a real life “Armageddon” situation.

Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth's orbit and circled above our heads for almost two months before departing. Scientists usually track such asteroids ...