A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

The U.S. probe that collected a sample from an asteroid earlier this week retrieved so much material that a rock is wedged the container door, allowing rocks to spill back out into space, NASA ...

The nearly 10-foot asteroid came closer to the Earth's surface than the orbit of the International Space Station.

TN2, the largest of four, will safely pass Earth today at 1.34 million km. There is no threat from it, said NASA.