Scientists find several building blocks of life on Bennu, an extraterrestrial asteroid, whose samples were collected by a ...

Currently, experts estimate that asteroid mining remains at least two to three decades away from commercial viability. Yet ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...

Jawin, Erica R., Ballouz, Ronald, Ryan, Andrew, Kaplan, Hannah, Al Asad, Manar M., Molaro, Jamie, Rozitis, Benjamin, Keller, Lindsay, and McCoy, Timothy J. 2023 ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

NASA says an asteroid larger than the Empire State Building is heading toward Earth. But don't worry, it's not expected to arrive until the year 2182 and there's only a .05% chance it will hit our ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which formed long before the sun even existed. Taken together, the findings, ...

SwRI scientists reviewed spectral data of sample material taken from near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (pictured above) and compared them with spectral data of main belt asteroid Polana from the ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Drouet D'Aubigny, C. Y. Edmundson, K. L. Fornasier, S. Hamilton, V. E. Hasselmann, P. H. Hergenrother, C. W. Howell, E. S. Jawin, Erica R. Kaplan, H. H. Le Corre, L ...