In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...

Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare cache to our planet has been one of NASA’s ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

Scientists look for these particles, which rain down constantly on Earth, in Antarctica and other ... had indeed managed to find extraterrestrial dust amid earthly debris.

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big ...

Whipple, F. L., “Particulate Contents of Space” in “Medical and Biological Aspects of the Energies of Space”, edit. by Campbell, P. (in the press). Hibbs, A ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...