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

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

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, ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...

NASA lists it as one of the upcoming close ... According to the results so far, an asteroid like Bennu that is rich in carbon could need several small bumps to charge its course.

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft ... Donaldjohanson's characteristics appear very distinct from Bennu and Ryugu.