A massive asteroid impact would unleash energy equal to millions of nuclear bombs, leaving survival nearly impossible.

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

Experts from London’s Natural History Museum and University of Arizona say Bennu’s particles give a purer glimpse of our ...

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...

Scientists have analysed samples from the Bennu asteroid (pictured), which resembles the Death Star space station in the Star ...

Scientists working with return samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a cosmic time ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

Mandel remains enchanted by space but is skeptical that humans are the optimal trailblazers. Robots, rovers, probes, and ...

A new study suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres once supplied a steady stream of chemical energy and may have been habitable.