NASA's DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of an asteroid"NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet."By I. Bonifacic, 10.11.2022
NASA's DART asteroid impact test left a trail over 6,000 miles longThis is what you get when you mess with DART.By J. Fingas, 10.04.2022
NASA successfully smacked its DART spacecraft into an asteroidThe vending machine-sized impactor vehicle was travelling at roughly 14,000 MPH when it struck.By A. Tarantola, 09.26.2022
Watch NASA crash DART into an asteroid at 6PM ETThe test could help Earth defend against asteroid impacts.By J. Fingas, 09.26.2022
Asteroid NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission landed on had a surface like a ‘pit of plastic balls’Bennu turned out nothing like scientists had expected. By I. Bonifacic, 07.10.2022
Watch scientists discuss the latest research on killer asteroidsYou can stream the Asteroid Foundation’s live program on International Asteroid Day, June 30th.By A. Khalid, 06.21.2022
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe will visit a second asteroidThe mission is getting a name change in the process.By J. Fingas, 04.26.2022
First full asteroid return sample confirms early Solar System originsThe rock is made of very primitive materials.By J. Fingas, 12.21.2021
NASA launches mission to explore Solar System 'fossils'Lucy is the agency's first mission to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.By J. Fingas, 10.16.2021
Two red objects between Mars and Jupiter may explain how the solar system formedThe asteroids may have originated from the vicinity of Neptune's orbit.By M. Moon, 07.30.2021
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe begins its two-year journey back to EarthIt will drop its sample container in the Utah desert in September 2023.By M. Moon, 05.11.2021
NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe will head back to Earth in MayThe samples it collected is expected to land in Utah in September 2023.By M. Moon, 01.27.2021
JAXA shows the sub-surface samples it collected from asteroid RyuguThe agency opened chamber "B" of Hayabusa2's sample capsule.By M. Moon, 12.25.2020
Japan's space agency shows off samples collected from asteroid RyuguThe agency also confirmed it gathered the first gas samples from deep space. By S. Dent, 12.15.2020
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe returns its asteroid sample to EarthScientists will learn much more about asteroid 1998 KY26.By J. Fingas, 12.05.2020
NASA confirms OSIRIS-REx has secured its asteroid sampleThe asteroid sampling mission grabbed so many rocks they were leaking out, but now they're stowed away.By R. Lawler, 10.29.2020
NASA will try to stow away its leaking asteroid sample tomorrowThe OSIRIS-REx mission grabbed more asteroid than anticipated, and now it needs to stow the sample securely.By R. Lawler, 10.26.2020
NASA works to secure the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampleAn administrator said that grabbing too much asteroid sample is 'not a bad problem to have.'By R. Lawler, 10.23.2020
NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully collected bits of an orbiting asteroidNow it has a three-year trek across the solar system to get back to Earth.By A. Tarantola, 10.20.2020