Earth, asteroid

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
According to scientists, the asteroid came closest to Earth on Christmas Day and passed near around 500,000 miles.
A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
A top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...
Current data suggest that during its 2055 visit, the sun-circling asteroid will once again make a temporary and partial lap around Earth. The Associated Press Health and Science Department ...
From robotic expeditions to the moon to a new observatory in space to a rendezvous with an asteroid, 2025 promises to be packed with ambitious space exploration. NASA and commercial space ...