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

We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life ... brines similar to Earth’s salt flats remained. Bennu’s near-Earth orbit and carbon-rich makeup have made it a target of scientific ...

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

The Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission is preparing to survey the next target in its epic 4-billion-mile, 12-year, 11-asteroid tour. On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly past ...

Just over the horizon, though, is the next big step into “cislunar ... which will fly to within a few miles of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, map it for several months and then get close ...

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

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

Patrick M. Shober received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945298. Patrick M. Shober currently ...

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13 ... mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three years later ...