The samples, which were scooped up by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a brief yet dramatic touchdown on Bennu in 2020, ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

Asteroids, comets, and meteors differ in origin and behavior—remnants of our Solar System that sometimes create dazzling sights in Earth’s skies.

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life.

New research on a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu — a small portion of which should arrive in Canada soon — is ...

NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid that's due to zip past Earth tomorrow at around 28,600 miles per hour, according ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

Ceres is a small, cold dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but billions of years ago it could have ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Ida on its way Jupiter. Galileo was the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid in the asteroid belt. Ida was actually the second one it ...