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

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, untouched for 4.6 billion years. Scientists will study the carbon- and ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

WBBM’s Carolina Garibay visits the Field Museum to meet researchers who will be studying a more than 40 million-year-old ...

Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight as Mars lingers with Leo after dark. Saturn is visible in the morning, meeting ...

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

China has launched an ambitious mission to bring asteroid samples back to Earth – part of broader efforts to explore the solar system and make advances in planetary science, resource utilisation ...

[Photo/Xinhua] China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid and retrieve its samples for scientists. Carrying the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing ...

Credit: CNSA China has launched its Tianwen-2 probe on a more than two-year mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and return samples to Earth. The probe launched at 1:31 a.m. local time May 29 ...

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 ...