The Earth has one less asteroid to worry about thanks to the research of an international team of scientists at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

NASA’s first asteroid sampling spacecraft is making final preparations to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu.

Lucy will fly by seven different Trojan asteroids that are orbiting the same distance from the Sun as Jupiter.

The next full Moon will be midday on Monday, August 3, 2020.

In the fall of 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft will reach its destination: asteroid Didymos and its small moonlet Dimorphos.

A comet visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system is putting on a spectacular nighttime display.

Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone.

The next full Moon will be early Sunday morning, July 5, 2020. There also will be a partial penumbral eclipse of the Moon.

Didymos B is getting an official name of its own: Dimorphos.

Images from OSIRIS-REx show rocks on asteroid Bennu appear to be cracking.

Asteroid 2002 NN4 will safely pass Earth on June 6 at a distance of approximately 3.2 million miles. There is no danger to Earth.

This view is a mosaic of sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu created from images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

The Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon, Mead Moon, Honey Moon, Vat Purnima, Poson Poya, and the LRO Moon.

Recently discovered object 2019 LD2, originally believed to be the first cometary “Jupiter Trojan” asteroid, turned out to be an interloper comet masquerading as a member of the Trojan population.

What can asteroids tell us about the early solar system? The James Webb Space Telescope will help unravel these mysteries.

NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid Bennu’s surface.

A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on April 29, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide object in great detail.

The Dishchii’bikoh meteorite fall in the White Mountain Apache reservation in central Arizona has given scientists a big clue to finding out where so-called LL chondrites call home.

On Apr. 14, the mission will pursue its first practice run – officially known as “Checkpoint” rehearsal – which will also place the spacecraft the closest it’s ever been to Bennu.

Whether you're doing it for the nerd cred or the pie, this week on #10Things, we've got all the ways you can celebrate #PiDay with NASA.

Benben Saxum and 11 other features on the asteroid are the first to receive official Bennu feature names approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Preliminary results indicate that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission’s Reconnaissance B phase activities.

Spitzer, designed to reveal the far, cold and dusty side of the universe, made discoveries its designers never even imagined, including a previously unseen ring of Saturn.

NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small moon. This bonus science opportunity was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft's launch, the mission team has gathered their top 10 images and graphics based on WISE and NEOWISE data.