The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Scientists have analysed samples from the Bennu asteroid (pictured), which resembles the Death Star space station in the Star ...

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

An asteroid the size of an airplane is now heading towards Earth, and scientists are watching closely. How close will asteroid 2025 PR pass? NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 PR is on course. The ...

NASA's spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of the asteroid Bennu, using a robotic arm to collect around 120g of ...

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

Material older than the sun has been found 200 million miles from Earth by a NASA spacecraft. "Presolar grains" - the dust of ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which returned samples from the asteroid Bennu in 2020, has provided groundbreaking insights into ...

One of the papers is the first major study of the chemistry of Bennu, published today in Nature Astronomy, revealing that the sample is chemically primitive and contains a mixture of materials with ...