GLASSBORO - Dr. Harold Connolly will wait seven years for his asteroid samples to return from space on a $1 billion mission. In the meantime, the bow-tied geologist and admitted geek, is building a ...

A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.

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 bring home the space agency’s ...

Discover the incredible dimensions and weight of the O'Neill cylinder-style space colonies from Mobile Suit Gundam. We explore their massive scale, construction materials, and how they utilize ...

Asteroid 2025 TF zipped past Earth above Antarctica, coming within 428 km of the surface. Roughly the size of a small car, it ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...

TF whizzed past Earth at a distance of only 266 miles (428 kilometers) from our planet — roughly the same altitude as the ...

An asteroid about the size of a small building zoomed past Earth unnoticed by astronomers last week, coming as close to the ...

By combining Gaia’s massive asteroid dataset with AI modeling, scientists discovered that asteroid rotation depends on how ...

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

Passing at an altitude of just 265 miles (428 kilometres), the asteroid came closer to the Earth's surface than the orbit of ...