An asteroid forged an unexpected link to San Bernardino County. Located in the sun-scorched Mojave Desert and named after a 19th-century prospector, the lake has been described as the “world’s ...

OSIRIS-REx captured what was there when the spacecraft made a touch-and-go landing on asteroid Bennu on October 20, 2020, then fired a bottle of compressed gas into the loose gravel-like material ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid likely broke apart 1 to 2 billion years ago, and some of the fragments came together to form the rubble pile we know as Bennu. These minerals are also found on icy bodies ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet and the solar system seem like a lot to fit in 4 ...

Limitations of Asteroid Crater Lakes as Climate Archives Dec. 5, 2023 — In southern Germany just north of the Danube, there lies a large circular depression between the hilly surroundings: the ...

The largest object in the asteroid belt, the dwarf planet Ceres, is an icy body that measures 592 miles across. About 25% of its mass, NASA estimates , is made up of water.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when astronomers found it ... on Sunday in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake ...

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don’t run for cover just yet. A NASA-funded telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first spotted the asteroid ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an impact likelihood of about 3%, additional data was ...