The mission provided details about how to deflect an asteroid should one threaten Earth in future.

Asteroids hitting Earth may have caused "Snowball Earth" periods where ice covered the planet's surface for thousands or millions of years.

Moons and asteroids will be visited by spacecraft from Earth next year.

George Lucas named Luke Skywalker’s home planet after a Tunisian town and meteorite.

Upcoming NASA missions will help scientists understand the composition of asteroids – which could inform companies one day hoping to commercially mine asteroids.

Scientists have been searching Earth’s surface for superheavy elements too difficult to make in the lab, but now, many are looking to the skies instead.

Researchers consider the feasibility of a knocked-off piece of the moon getting into Earth's quasi-satellite orbit—an unlikely phenomenon.

Some space rocks you can get for free – if you know how to identify them. Rarer materials cost more, and the asteroid sample NASA just brought back has a high price tag.