NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

For hundreds of millions of years, a top-shaped rubble pile called Bennu has orbited the sun in relative isolation. The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate ...

The spacecraft grabbed so much of the asteroid Bennu, its sample-collection device got jammed. Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the ...

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

Other countries have already completed asteroid sample missions—Japan from asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu, and the United States from Bennu. Kamo’oalewa is considered a quasi-satellite of Earth—too ...

In 2020, the first U.S. asteroid retrieval mission, OSIRIS-REx, brought back samples from the Bennu asteroid. Kamoʻoalewa is known as a quasi-satellite of Earth, a close celestial neighbour that ...

Politecnico di Milano Department of Aerospace Science and Technology’s Francesco Topputo and Fabio Ferrari said: "Being part of the Apophis mission is a tremendous honour. We are developing ...

Today, May 26, asteroid “2025 KT1” will miss Earth by 1,240,681 miles. And four more are coming this week, about the size of a house. Last Thursday, “2025 KH” flew past Earth with a ...

A bus-sized asteroid known as "2025 KH," measuring around 37 feet in diameter, soared past the Earth on Thursday morning at over 25,000 miles per hour, coming as close as within 687,000 miles from ...

Here’s how it works. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.