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

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

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 ...

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

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

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 ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...