Space Rocks

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission finds asteroid Bennu spinning faster and faster over time

Asteroid Bennu's rotation period is getting shorter by roughly one second every 100 years.

Asteroids are smacking Earth twice as often as before, but you need not worry

Asteroids still only smack Earth on average every million years, even with the increased rate.

Solar wind could help detect dangerous space rocks bound for Earth

Changes in streams of plasma and particles spewing from the Sun, called solar wind, may help detect potentially dangerous space rocks.

Space rock craze hits South Korea after meteor shower