Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

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, map it for several months and then ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos ... studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed ...

The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu ... help them map the elusive ...

Astronomers have just found a planet that might be perfect for human life! It’s in the “Goldilocks zone,” meaning it’s not too hot or too cold—just right for liquid water. Scientists believe this ...

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

A new effort using data from a NASA-led satellite is helping to change that, providing one of the most detailed maps of the bottom of the world's oceans ever created. The SWOT satellite ...