"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
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, ...
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...
Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar ...
Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...
NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...
but the trip mostly serves as a rehearsal for other asteroid encounters down the road — namely, Lucy's final destination: Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. Over a 12-year mission, Lucy is scheduled to ...