Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge ... yet 4 space tourists splash down after traveling an orbit never attempted before Kurt Russell delights ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered ... likely gets broken down through heat stress when its orbit takes it close to the Sun.

Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit ... The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu.

Recent SwRI models indicate it may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart. Its orbit and spin ... Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu ...

Carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid Bennu as seen from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... likely gets broken down through heat stress when its orbit takes it close to the Sun. As carbonaceous chondrites orbit ...