NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...
The asteroid was officially confirmed by NASA as a “Provisional Discovery of a Main Belt Asteroid,” and now, Malik will have the honor of assigning it a permanent name. This confirmation ...