Pope Francis is showing improvement, is alert, and doing some work, the Vatican said on Friday (February 21), as the ...

A Qing dynasty lacquer panel is among thousands of artifacts being restored in China's Palace Museum. Reuters was given a ...

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

Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System Scientists have uncovered salt minerals in ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

The universe is literally infinite (or is it?), and you’ve carved out a fascinating niche within it by studying young stars ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

after setting down on and collecting samples from near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It was the first time the space agency had conducted such a mission and now they have finally unveiled what exactly was ...

Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely ... However, meteorites experience intense heat and pressure when they enter Earth's atmosphere, and they are exposed to water ...

In 2023, samples ... from Earth."Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across — was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other ...