The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

These telescopes capture the light reflected from the asteroid. As asteroids move against the background of fixed stars, they can be identified by their motion across the sky. "Some telescopes are ...

The roadster was expected to go into elliptical orbit around the sun, going a little beyond Mars and back toward Earth, but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid ...

With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is set to zoom by the Earth on Tuesday, traveling several times faster than a speeding bullet. The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...