Let’s go back. For whatever reason, on April 21, 2020, Andy Riesmeyer strapped his cellphone to the roof of the car and ...

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

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

The team’s findings shake up the story of Bennu, whose rocky bits were valiantly collected by NASA in 2020 ... amount of asteroid material they had initially hoped to gather (4.29 ounces ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose. By Carl Zimmer Our solar system contains ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ... Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

2024 YR4 is a newly spotted asteroid with the potential to hit Earth—and its chances of smashing into our planet in 2032 is definitely more than zero. I realize that “definitely more than zero” will ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid ... on Wednesday (Jan. 29), come as a bit ...

Astronomers have discovered a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a chance of smashing into Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is 44 million kilometres (27m miles) from Earth, travelling at a ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters ... The U.S. space agency's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020 collected the samples from the near-Earth asteroid, a rocky remnant of a larger celestial body ...