Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

An asteroid the size of One World Trade Center has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182. But what ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth in 2023 after collecting 4.3 ounces (121.6 grams) of precious grains ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...

The spacecraft traveled to near-Earth asteroid Bennu and collected a sample of rocks and dust from the surface in 2020. It delivered the sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023.

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Astronomers have, for the first time, watched the moment a feeding supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy spat out a jet of material at one-third of the speed of light.

Now it could contribute new insights to asteroid ... found out that it was rich in silicate minerals—not the kind that are seen on asteroids but those that have been found in lunar rock samples ...

But less than 17 hours later, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) issued an editorial notice: It was deleting 2018 CN41 from its records because, it turned out, the object was not an asteroid.

Art After Dark returns to the West End on March 6-8, and you’ll be able to catch the glowing asteroid-sized moon rocks in Piccadilly Circus. You can find out more via the Art Of London website. Read ...