In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and stripes on the planet ...
The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...
Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...
The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...
Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...
By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
Asteroid Bennu wasn’t what NASA expected. Instead of a smooth surface for sample collection, OSIRIS-REx encountered a chaotic ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) traveled 3.6 ...
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...