NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

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A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...