Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humanity has a tricky relationship with asteroids. Every once in a while, they come out of nowhere to smack us around a little, ...

NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth last year, landing a sample collected from asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert in September. Researchers were able to extract 70 grams of material ...

Dugway • One morning this fall, as the sun rises over the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains, the NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will jettison a capsule it’s hauled across space for seven years towards Earth.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...