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

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 space power the third ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

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

While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details. Rising out of the remote Mojave Desert, NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar is a ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu and sent home a small capsule containing a sample in September 2023. Released from the OSIRIS-REx craft, the sample return ...

The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber ...

The last major asteroid impact on Earth was the Tunguska Event in 1908 in Siberia, where an asteroid, estimated to be between 50–100 meters in diameter, exploded in the Earth's atmosphere and ...

NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived on Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind ...