Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu ... but that this collection of amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission aims to collect asteroid samples and explore a comet, advancin... Recent findings indicate the Moon might be over 100 million years older than prior estimates.

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.

China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this year. Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid ...

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, ...

In 2018, the spacecraft reached the asteroid Bennu ... called Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM, to collect at least 60 grams, or 2.1 ounces, of regolith.

so we could deploy the latest technology and know that it would be sitting on an asteroid's surface in a very short time. That mission could also collect samples and bring them back to Earth for ...

China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this year. Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid ...