Br. Guy Consolmagno presents on CI meteorites in Australia. These ancient space rocks offer clues about asteroids and the ...

Br. Guy Consolmagno presents on CI meteorites in Australia. These ancient space rocks offer clues about asteroids and the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

That data shows that even with Earth avoiding direct impact, YR4 could still pose a threat in late 2032 by slamming into the ...

The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...

The Bennu asteroid sample contains minerals that were altered by water in processes similar to those found on Earth and icy moons.