Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

The mission, which launched on Sept. 8, 2016, targeting the primordial asteroid Bennu, believed to have remained largely unchanged since the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

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

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is now more likely to make impact with the moon.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

NASA has proven that successful extraction of materials from asteroids is possible; this was most recently seen with the promising results of its OSIRIS-REx mission, which retrieved samples containing ...