Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future.

Fortunately, thanks to the Earth's atmosphere acting as a natural shield, instead of crash landing on the ground ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth ...

This September, the agency is scheduled to launch a robotic spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, which will fly to within a few miles of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu ... A candidate landing site for ...

(SpaceX/NASA via AP) Read full article: Starship delays means Artemis moon landing may be pushed back ... Rex spacecraft touches the surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment ... The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

Easter Sunday certainly hasn't been a day of rest for the astronomy community. All eyes are on NASA's asteroid-studying Lucy spacecraft, which should have had a close space rock encounter at 1:51 ...