New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Last week, scientists who analyzed the rubble from a near-Earth asteroid reported their first detailed findings. The ...

XR flew about 1.37 million miles (2.2M km) away from Earth. The space rock is estimated to be about 300-700 km (248-434 miles ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...