The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Then there were others, such as the Great Dying and the Late Devonian extinction. An asteroid's impact killed the dinosaurs and is the only mass extinction we know about that was caused by an outer ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...

An ancient asteroid slammed into Australia 600 million years ago, leaving a long, shallow crater. Shatter cones and rock deformations reveal the force of the impact, but its full consequences remain ...

On September 8 at Cape Canaveral 7.05pm local time Nasa launched Osiris-Rex spacecraft on a two year journey to intercept the asteroid Bennu. It will study Bennu for two years, take samples from the ...

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the ...

the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid. The mission returned nearly 122 grams of material from Bennu – the largest sample ever captured in space and returned to Earth from an ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid ... Meanwhile, the Bennu samples revealed comet particles and 20 different types of amino acids. The OSIRIS-REx sample, the largest ever ...