Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 12, 2001, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched ...

JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission is carrying the German-built Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) that will attempt to land on ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis, about 400 metres across, was discovered in 2004. Initial calculations ...

JAXA officials confirmed they had received a clear signal from the MINERVA-II1 rovers after they were deployed, but they lost contact with them, possibly because of Ryugu’s rotation. So they haven’t ...

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule ...