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

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

Much of what scientists know about the early Solar System comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

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 ...

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

NASA has proven that successful extraction of materials from asteroids is possible; this was most recently seen with the promising results of its OSIRIS-REx mission, which retrieved samples containing ...

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.