Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Despite a few months topping the hit list of the most dangerous asteroids, it is now certain that 2024 YR4 won’t hit our ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. It was probably a fragment of a much larger body, freed after a collision that began moving ...

Lucy's target is a common type of asteroid, composed of silicate rocks ... from the source regions of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively by ...