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

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

NASA’s OSIRIS‑REx and JAXA’s Hayabusa2 ... So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample. Retrieving this sample allowed scientists to examine ...

Usually, what springs to mind when you think of the world’s most expensive substances are gold, silver, and platinum. However ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

Newman says NASA, which has had five partners from ... which will fly to within a few miles of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, map it for several months and then get close enough to extend ...