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 ...

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

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, ...

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

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 mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis is another potentially hazardous ... but should miss the planet. Bennu and 1950 DA are two asteroids that are often believed to hit Earth within the next hundred ...

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being ... object since the scale was put in place was a 4, which went to Apophis in 2004. Apophis was actually deemed less likely to hit ...

In 2004, a much bigger asteroid called Apophis briefly rated a four before ... NASA plans to use the same craft that landed on the asteroid Bennu and returned samples to Earth in 2023.