Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

Planetary defence has become a critical global effort, uniting space agencies like NASA, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO to detect, track ...

A massive asteroid, 1997 QK1, is set to safely pass Earth on August 20, 2025, at a distance of 1.87 million miles. While not ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered over 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of Bennu ’s soil to Earth in 2023, is the largest haul of ...

Dust scooped up from an asteroid by a NASA spacecraft 200 million miles from Earth has been found to contain material that is ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration analyses the samples from asteroid Bennu, unveiling a complex history of ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.