The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

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Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

China’s Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study a ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 is on an Earth-like orbit that remained in the immediate vicinity of our planet for several months at the end of 2024. 2024 PT was first detected on August 7, 2024, by ...

Asteroid 2024 WY70 is about 820 feet (250 meters) wide. It will make a close approach to Earth, coming within 6.3 million kilometres, which is about 16 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is closely monitoring an asteroid that will pass Earth on 21 January 2025. Named 2017 BN92, the space rock poses no threat to the planet. How Close Will It ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered groundbreaking insights with its return of pristine samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Initial analysis reveals an extraordinary composition that ...

When NASA landed a probe on an asteroid and took samples they brought back some incredibly valuable things to Earth. The official name of this chunk of space rock is 101955 Bennu, which we'll call ...

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