Asteroid & Comet Missions

Recovery teams are gearing up for the Sept. 24 landing of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample in the Utah desert.

NASA has put its Janus asteroid mission on ice after a launch delay made the twin probes' target systems inaccessible.

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is on track to hit its new launch target of October 2023, a year later than originally planned, an independent review has found.

The United Arab Emirates just provided new details about its planned asteroid mission, which will visit seven different space rocks — and land on one of them.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has altered its course ahead of visiting its first asteroid target in Nov. 2023 on its way to become the first probe to visit the Trojan asteroids that orbit Jupiter.

The United Arab Emirates is targeting seven different space rocks with its ambitious mission to the main asteroid belt.

The U.S. government has published an updated action plan for how to deal with potentially dangerous asteroids.

NASA's LUCY asteroid-hopping mission has for the first time spotted four of its asteroid targets which it will visit from 2027 onwards and send those images back to Earth.

The Apophis asteroid, recently cleared of imminent wrongdoing to Earth, already has one spacecraft visitor expected. NASA wants industry to send more.

Observations by NASA's DART spacecraft suggest that the asteroid Dimorphos formed from material flung into space by its spinning asteroid partner, Didymos.