Bennu’s near-Earth orbit and carbon-rich makeup have made it a target of scientific interest. It has been theorized that this asteroid contained water and organic molecules. Bennu and other ...

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

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

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

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following the ...

These are asteroids whose orbit brings them within 195 million ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023. Earlier this year, the first in-depth analysis ...

In the time since, the team also learned, Donaldjohanson's orbit and spin have evolved ... REx mission collected samples from Bennu, and the Hayabusa2 asteroid-sampling spacecraft from the ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future.