The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The asteroid harbors traces of ancient briny water, salty minerals, and even ...

Meanwhile, the Bennu samples revealed comet particles ... "It is a potentially hazardous asteroid that may still hit the moon in 2032, and even if it doesn't, it could certainly become an actual ...

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

The best case scenario is that the asteroid will pass within just 167,000 miles of our planet; the moon is 238,855 miles away, according to Space.com. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a piece of Mars and lay their hands on a meteorite older than Earth.

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space ...