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

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

Budget cuts hitting U.S. government agencies like NASA don't seem promising for the Hubble Space Telescope, but there is ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

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 ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

Late last year, NASA announced it had selected sites to grab samples from the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and, after a journey of two years, it began ...

Vatican Observatory Report! Discover Br. Bob Macke’s work on asteroid Bennu and more groundbreaking science from VO ...