Asteroid 2023 RR5 is due to pass halfway between the Earth and the moon on September 13 ... over many centuries and millennia the asteroid's orbit may evolve into one that has a chance of ...

A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...

It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...

OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016, five years after the project was selected by NASA to be the agency’s third ...

The spacecraft’s ability to closely orbit the asteroid can reveal the surface ... “It gets within one-tenth the distance between the Earth and moon during the 2029 encounter,” added ...

Five science instruments mapped Bennu's chemistry and mineralogy, to determine the effect of sunlight on the asteroid's orbit ... 2135 it could pass closer to Earth than the moon, according ...

A house-sized asteroid is set to soar by Earth Wednesday, with four other space rocks slated to follow in the coming days, according to NASA’s Asteroid ... between Earth and the moon is about ...

Apophis will miss the Earth by about 20,000 miles in 2029 — that’s closer than our own Moon. OSIRIS-APEX will study the gravitational effects of the close pass on “the asteroid’s orbit ...

The average distance between Earth and the moon is about 239,000 miles. Here's what will ... time. No asteroid is awarded a name until it has been observed long enough for its orbit to be ...

Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...