Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.

"I've been waiting for 20 years to tell you about this work," said Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum ... an ancestral asteroid of rock and ice that ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." A newly discovered asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-83 chance of ...

Tim McCoy, right, and Cari Corrigan, meteorite researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum ... asteroid. These are the most precious space souvenirs NASA has obtained since the Apollo moon ...

The chemical building blocks of life have been found in the grainy dust of an asteroid called Bennu, an analysis reveals. Samples of the space rock ... Natural History Museum in London.

That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...

Bennu—a rubble pile just one-third of a mile (one-half of a kilometer) across—was originally part of a much larger asteroid that got clobbered by other space rocks. The latest results suggest ...

NASA monitors such events to better understand asteroid movements, composition, and potential future risks. The close encounter highlights the importance of ongoing space monitoring. Studying ...

co-lead author of the Nature study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid.

Timothy J McCoy, Smithsonian Institution and Sara Russell, Natural History Museum (THE ... with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the one that rained rocks over Revelstoke.