NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft didn’t just collect rocks from asteroid Bennu — it brought back samples that are rewriting our ...
A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...
The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.
Chang’e 5 lunar samples analyzed with quantum sensors clarify how ancient lunar dynamo activity and asteroid impacts jointly produced the Moon’s remnant magnetism.
Learn about 2024 YR4, the asteroid with a 4 percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, and the possible timeline of effects that could follow.
Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...
Samples of asteroids contain a range of organic molecules. Do asteroids raining down on Earth explain how life started on ...