NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird. The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist ...

NASA’s mission, in a way, is already in progress. The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three years later—has now ...

A tiny bit of asteroid dust is rewriting what we know about the early solar system and about ourselves. BCCI contracts out: Rohit, Kohli, Bumrah in A+ grade, check full list & salaries 'Kesari ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu. They believe the asteroid is a plant-like object rich in water and ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had its second rendezvous with an asteroid over the weekend, this time with the uniquely named ...

to measure the volume and thus the density and porosity of the sample of Asteroid Bennu collected by OSIRIS-REx.

Astronomers have found what they describe as the strongest evidence yet of possible life beyond the solar system, following the detection of key chemical signatures in the atmosphere of a distant ...

As the Trump administration returned to office on January 20, a wave of uncertainty swept through federal institutions and the scientific community. Many researchers, particularly early-career ...

The family originated in the inner main belt not far from the source regions of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx and JAXA’s ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample. Retrieving this sample allowed scientists to examine the asteroid's composition in detail. Similarly, ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample. Retrieving this sample allowed scientists to examine the asteroid’s composition in detail.