A remnant of the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, scientists think Apophis started out in the crowded ...

The team is also analyzing a sample from asteroid Ryugu brought by the Hayabusa2 explorer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Explore a tiny asteroid sample's cosmic secrets and its potential impact on our understanding of the universe.

The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...

NASA has provided asteroid Bennu samples to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London, for an in-depth analysis ...

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which lifted off in October in search of gold, diamond on an asteroid, has retrieved the first images -- a milestone called "first light", the US space agency announced on ...

Fragments from an asteroid described by Nasa as the most dangerous rock in the Solar System are being studied in the UK. The ...

The unremarkable black dust-like sample from asteroid Bennu could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how ...

OSIRIS-APEX (the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx) is about to face its first test in its extended mission to asteroid ...

UK are currently examining samples from asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, aiming to unravel the mysteries ...

A new federal report finds NASA’s plans to put astronauts back on the Moon in 2025 via the multiphase Artemis program was ...