WASHINGTON – NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining a sample taken from the asteroid ... a sample of rocks and dust from the asteroid’s surface in 2020, before dropping the capsule ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

The chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth in 2032 have risen slightly and, while it is unlikely to happen, it is still ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News. Dr David Whitehouse said the measure could be taken against a ...

Photograph by NASA/Science Photo Library Asteroids often ... is that it only gives a range of sizes. A larger asteroid with a dark, coal-like surface reflects a similar amount of light to a ...

WASHINGTON – NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining a sample taken ... to the asteroid – about 200 million miles away from Earth. NASA said the spacecraft successfully collected a sample of ...

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

Credit: Molly Wasser, GSFC, NASA About four and a half years ago, a spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx touched down on the surface of an asteroid called Bennu ... When you see photos of it, they’re ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu ... More:High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed. How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu sample back to Earth.