REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

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Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

An asteroid impact today could be devastating. But a few billion years ago, an impact may have helped life exist. Scientists hope to learn more about that possibility with recently extracted samples ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

There comes a point in every child’s life when they ask where babies come from. And for some reason, parents turn to the ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in October 2020 from the asteroid Bennu, among researchers around the globe.

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NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...