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

The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. It was probably a fragment of a much larger body, freed after a collision that began moving ...

The photos of asteroid Ryugu were taken by Japan's Hayabusa2 unmanned asteroid probe, while those of asteroid Bennu were taken by the U.S. probe Osiris-Rex. The findings were published Monday in ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA. The European Space ...

NASA's Martian explorer Curiosity has found yet another mystery on the rocky road towards Mars' boxwork region. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Aliens aren't terraforming Mars, but one of NASA's rovers ...

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In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth itself. When the capsule was opened in 2023, scientists were stunned by ...

According to the results so far, an asteroid like Bennu that is rich in carbon could need several small bumps to charge its course. 'These results indicate multiple successive impacts may be ...

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 ...