Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

asteroid Bennu. This discovery offers key insights into the early solar system and the origins of life. In the latest SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson and NASA scientist Danny Glavin ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.