Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

Its highly elliptical orbit around the sun brings it as close as 1.03 astronomical unit (AU) to our home star and as far out as 10.37 AU. (One astronomical unit is the average distance between ...