NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future.

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Scientists will continue studying the rocks using the tools available to them on the rovers, but such finds reinforce the desire for NASA to bring samples back to Earth for more rigorous studies.

In ten years, it hopes to have tracked 90%. Ground telescopes have offered our best asteroid data so far, but spotting dark, tumbling rocks from Earth is like finding ink blots in the night sky.

The odds that the space rock, 2024 YR4 ... Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than ... hidden in Bennu’s ancient rocks. Donald Trump Issues Executive Order ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods forever. via REUTERS We could experience a rock market crash. Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth ...

The most common are C-type asteroids, made of clay and silicate rocks and darker in appearance ... which retrieved samples containing organic compounds from Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid. Scientists ...