OSIRIS-REx isn't done yet. After swinging past Earth to drop off the Bennu Sample, it is now headed out to intercept the orbit of asteroid Apophis. In doing so, OSIRIS-REx was officially renamed ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Early last week, 2024 YR4 briefly broke a record once reached by the asteroid Apophis after it was first spotted in 2004. At its peak threat level, 2024 YR4 reached a 3 on the Torino Scale and had ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Bennu is just the latest body in the Solar ... asteroid ever achieved on the Torino Scale happened in 2004 when asteroid 99942 Apophis reached a rating of four before further observations ...

If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news ... even prompted no shortage of comparisons to Apophis, its much larger cousin that gave humanity ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965.