Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...
Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...
The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson ... NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from Bennu, and the Hayabusa2 asteroid-sampling ...
For instance, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and in 2020 collected samples of rock and dust that, according to a study published in January, bore some of ...
Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...