Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...

Before hitting the Earth, rocks traveling through space are generally referred to as asteroids, meteoroids or comets, depending on their size and ... ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve ...

Before hitting Earth, rocks traveling through space are generally referred to as asteroids, meteoroids or comets, depending on their size and ... ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an ...

When researchers use telescopes to study the main asteroid belt and nearby regions ... meteoroid paths but also estimate their strength, size, and type. Even though most meteoroids are too ...

These Trojans – two large groups ... (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx and JAXA’s Hayabusa2 missions. This artist’s concept compares the approximate ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

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 ...

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...