NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the sample will be preserved for future generations of humanity, the best-case ...

Asteroids may have sparked life on Earth, delivering key chemical compounds, generating heat, and carving out freshwater lakes ideal for early biology.

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, scientists expected ancient space dust. Instead, early analysis revealed organic compounds, water-related minerals, and ...

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...

The University of Arizona has launched Bear Down 100, a campaign celebrating the centennial of its iconic rallying cry while ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

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