The asteroid Ryugu is light and fluffy. Images taken by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft suggest the whole asteroid is highly porous, scientists report in Nature on March 16. “It is something like ...

The asteroid Ryugu has a texture that is highly porous, new images from a Japanese spacecraft reveal. “It is something like freeze-[dried] coffee,” planetary scientist Tatsuaki Okada of the ...

Galileo was about 10,000 miles from the asteroid when its camera pointed toward Gaspra. The Times referred to the composite photo as “a sharp portrait” of an asteroid, and, indeed, it was at ...

NASA held a briefing to reveal the rocks returned by the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. ... Bennu has a salt and pepper kind of texture, bright grains and dark grains. And we're seeing that.

Asteroid rocks collected by NASA are rich in water and carbon Scientists are thrilled with the tiny asphalt-black rocks, ... "Bennu has a salt-and-pepper kind of texture, ...

A view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 6, ... "sandpaper-like texture," said team member Andrew Ryan, a research scientist at LPL at the University of Arizona.

At about 14:51 GMT on April 22, 2012, a fireball was seen throughout the western United States, accompanied by a loud booming sound heard over much of California's Sierra Nevada mountains around ...

NASA is usually pretty careful with its space probes. But this time, with DART, it’s different. A team of scientists has now deliberately plowed a craft into a tumbling space rock at high speed.

Enormous asteroid Vesta is the second-largest body in the asteroid belt. It’s so big, in fact, that many consider it to be more of a planet than just another rocky lump. There are good reasons ...

A small asteroid crashed into Earth three years ago — and now scientists know where it came from. Researchers have traced the origins of the resulting rare meteorite fragments, which began the ...