Asteroids aren’t just space rocks - they could hold the secrets to Earth’s origin, limitless resources, and even planetary ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...

NASA’s mission, in a way, is already in progress. The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three years later—has now ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

Asteroid metal mining is a bold new step. It pulls valuable stuff like platinum, nickel, cobalt, and gold from space rocks. Unlike Earth mining, it uses high-tech robots, AI, and self-flying ...