The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

A woman proclaimed the area to be "Mexican land" as she was being arrested. (Credit: Kern County Sheriff's Office) ...

Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar with the idea of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) mining.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample named 'Silver Mountain' from Mars' Jezero Crater, marking a ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 4 ounces of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after another space ...

NASA reaffirms its plan with SpaceX to return two astronauts from the ISS, following President Trump's remarks. Another ...

One of the most important of these landed in 1969 ... at the 1,850-foot-wide asteroid in 2020, scooped up rock and dirt, and then jetted back to Earth. On Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx return capsule ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...