Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...
NASA expected Asteroid Bennu to behave like a solid body. Instead, OSIRIS-REx found a surface far more fragile and ...
🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...
Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision ...
If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...
A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...
New experiments suggest that RNA, a crucial molecule for life, could have naturally formed on early Earth or even arrived from space via asteroids.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution” images of the ...
2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...
Out in the depths of space, somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, is a newly discovered asteroid that's breaking records.