A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

These asteroids, sometimes dubbed the “vermin ... thanks to modern technologies,” Burdanov says. “It’s a good example of what we can do as a field when we look at the data differently.” ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

For example, during the famous Perseid meteor ... respectively. Young families of asteroids contain a lot of small fragments left over from collisions. Most of the meteorites are regular ...

The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets ... the temperature decreases, for example, Mercury is 430 °C whereas Neptune ...

Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life.