A remnant of the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, scientists think Apophis started out in the crowded ...

Lauretta called a crash like the one experienced by NASA's Genesis mission as the "worst-case scenario" for OSIRIS-REx. In that event, scientists would need to scramble to gather as much of the ...

Explore a tiny asteroid sample's cosmic secrets and its potential impact on our understanding of the universe.

The team is also analyzing a sample from asteroid Ryugu brought by the Hayabusa2 explorer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...

NASA has provided asteroid Bennu samples to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London, for an in-depth analysis ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft acquired 'first light' images on Monday, December 4 using its twin cameras. The imager instrument captured a total of 68 images, all within a star field in the constellation ...

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...

Fragments from an asteroid described by Nasa as the most dangerous rock in the Solar System are being studied in the UK. The ...

The unremarkable black dust-like sample from asteroid Bennu could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how ...

OSIRIS-APEX (the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx) is about to face its first test in its extended mission to asteroid ...

A new federal report finds NASA’s plans to put astronauts back on the Moon in 2025 via the multiphase Artemis program was ...