The space rock, known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, had its impact odds for 2032 revised by NASA ’s Centre for Near-Earth Object ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam images collected ... the possibility that life on Earth could have been seeded by chemicals in the cosmos billions of years ago. “Asteroids ...

We usually see such warnings about one or two objects every year; the latest iteration concerns an asteroid ... images of the sky every night and look for undiscovered objects zipping through our ...

TEMPLE, Texas — New samples from an asteroid could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to ... for the first time on a sample from outside our planet, NASA said.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth in 2023 after collecting 4.3 ounces (121.6 grams) of precious grains of dust and rock from the asteroid ... our solar system existed before ...

Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. Credit: Christoph Burgstedt / iStock / Getty Images ... "Is the universe predisposed to our kind of life, or is our ...

Three years earlier NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had grabbed these samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu ... Earth and our planet’s life—formed. Soon after the Bennu samples ...