Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

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

China is set to launch its own asteroid sample return mission this year. Many scientists advocate for a mission to gather rocks and soil from the potentially water-rich dwarf planet Ceres in the ...

Scientists are keeping close watch on the space rock, which is currently heading away from Earth. As the asteroid’s path around the sun becomes better understood, Chodas and others said there ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu ... s National Museum of Natural History, said. Picture: NASA Goddard “These grains of rock have shown that the building ...

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 ...

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 ...