NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
YR4, an asteroid that currently has a more than 1 percent chance to hit the Earth in 2032, catching the attention of ...
Get ready for a close encounter of the celestial kind. On the afternoon of Jan. 26, the tiny asteroid 2023 BU will whiz only about 2,175 miles (3,500 km) from the Earth's surface. Before you bolt ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.
Now it's over, we can say it: a biggish asteroid passed by Earth a short while ago. About the size of a minibus, the space rock, known as 2023 BU, whipped over the southern tip of South America ...
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...