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

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...

REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Asteroid 2005 VO5 will pass Earth at ...

I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and challenged us. The most surprising thing that directly impacted the mission is the rugged nature of Bennu’s surface.

A microscopic grain from asteroid Ryugu, delivered by Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe, revealed a fiery mineral that shouldn’t exist there. The unexpected find is raising new questions about asteroid ...