NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
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Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...
Space agencies around the world are tasked with locating, studying and analysing the trajectories of cosmic objects that pose ...
A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...
The space rock now has a one-in-360 chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, down from its peak of a one-in-32 chance. While it's looking likely that asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely fly by Earth, ...
Jim Free, associate administrator at NASA, is set to retire on Feb. 22 after three decades of service.
REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...