The space agency has just announced plans to fly to an asteroid, snag a boulder, fly back toward Earth and put the rock in orbit around the moon. Because science.

The boulder-size asteroid was estimated to be about 6 feet across, small enough to safely disintegrate in Earth’s atmosphere. The space rock disintegrated several miles above the Earth’s surface.

Bizarre meteorite is 1st to show scars from pebble-shooting asteroid. News. By Charles Q. Choi published 11 August 2022 ... "This constant thermal cycling makes the rock brittle, ...

As the lead singer of the rock band Queen, the late Freddie Mercury was always a star. Now he’s an asteroid, too. Mercury’s bandmate Brian May and a Boulder astronomer got an asteroid n… ...

The size of the boulder will depend on how big the asteroid target is, but NASA is hoping to get one that’s up to 13 feet wide. Then, it will deploy a robotic arm (ARM’s arm, if you will) and ...

The Asteroid Redirect Mission, or ARM, is the centerpiece of the Obama administration's post-shuttle, post-space station plan to send astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, bypassing the moon in favor ...

The asteroid 6478 Gault is seen with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, showing two narrow, comet-like tails of debris that tell us that the asteroid is slowly undergoing self-destruction. The ...