Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...

Dust scooped up from an asteroid by a NASA spacecraft 200 million miles from Earth has been found to contain material that is ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered over 120 grams (4.2 ounces) of Bennu ’s soil to Earth in 2023, is the largest haul of ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Pittsburgh acquired Metcalf in March for a 2025 second-round pick, and he agreed to a five-year, $150 million extension with ...

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...