In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...

Asteroid Bennu has been in the news a lot lately. Now it’s making headlines again as there is a chance it may collide with ...

When the Bennu capsule returned to Earth scientists expected fragments of ancient rock What they found instead offered new clues about how planets form and how life may have begun in the early solar ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Using data collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, this animation shows the trajectories of rocky particles after ...

Abstract: Predictively synthesizing high-quality, close-range asteroid surface views from distant optical remote sensing imagery is critical for mission planning and landing-site selection in asteroid ...

WSYX — Engineers and scientists are actively preparing strategies to prevent Asteroid 2024 YR4 from colliding with the moon, an event that could disrupt satellites orbiting Earth. The asteroid, which ...

Get ready for some news that’s out of this world. An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 could be on course to make contact with the moon—and such an impact wouldn’t come without consequence, according to an ...

Smile! A spacecraft just caught you — and everyone else on our planet — on camera while snapping a selfie. China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft took a picture of itself, as well as the Earth, while en route ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...