"It is possible that asteroid 2024 YR4 will fade from view before we are able to entirely rule out any chance of impact in ...
Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Most asteroids are found in the asteroid belt, but some stray off course into wider orbits. The largest asteroid in that belt is Vesta, 329 miles wide or 530 kilometers, but there are millions ...
Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ... Now, researchers have to go back to the drawing board to understand how life might have been seeded on Earth. “I felt a little ...
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, contain sodium carbonate. The Cassini mission measured the same mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
The lander is part of the larger mission to the asteroid belt The lander, designed to study the asteroid Justitia, will be part of the larger EMA initiative, which spans a 13-year mission to ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.