Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ... “We expect the impact probability to go to zero rather than 100 percent,” Rivkin said to the New York Times.

According to a January 2025 study published in Nature, the Bennu asteroid samples contain six of the same minerals observed at San Bernardino County’s Searles Lake: calcite, dolomite ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains ... asteroid around 60 miles wide formed in the outer reaches of the Solar ...

NASA researchers have been studying rock and dust brought back to Earth from the asteroid, Bennu. Those particles revealed what scientists call "the building blocks for life." Researchers found 14 ...

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. As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the ...

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in October 2020 from the asteroid ... bodies in our solar system,” said ...

(CNN) — Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface ... life to Earth and other bodies in our solar system,” said Dr. Daniel P.