Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

When scientists analyzed the sample returned from asteroid Bennu, they quickly realized it contained more than anticipated.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent two years observing the asteroid Bennu before it collected a ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever found.

It all started with an overheard conversation between some camel herders. The year was 1916, and Gaston Ripert, a French army captain, had been injured and sent to recover in the small town of ...

In a stunning feat of precision and chemistry-driven exploration, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission intercepted a speeding asteroid more than 200 million miles from Earth, collected samples from its surface, ...

NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid that’s heading towards Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Measuring around 230 feet in ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source - ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...

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