Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

However, asteroids there are unlikely to suddenly start moving into Earth ... The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu.

The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

Latest findings suggest that the Earth's atmosphere went through a ... NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered a sample from asteroid Bennu, revealing amino acids, nucleobases, ammonia, and ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...