Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 as it heads towards Earth. Should we be worried about it? Here's what ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

The researchers studied how the sunlight reflected off the small rock to discover it didn't match that of any known asteroid type. Instead, the reflected light more closely matched rocks from the ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...

terrestrial and lab-made materials revealed that it reflected light more like rocks from the moon than any other known asteroid type, according to the study. More specifically, The space rock's ...