The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

Humanity has collected samples from three asteroids: the stony type, Itokawa, and the carbonaceous Ryugu and Bennu.

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...