Asteroid 2010 RA91 will pass relatively close to Earth, but if it poses no threat, why are scientists still watching it so ...
This image taken from video shows a suspected meteor falling through the sky in the greate ...
NASA’s study of Bennu reveals why its rocky surface behaves like sand. The answer lies in cracks deep inside its boulders.
Researchers are still studying samples of Ryugu collected by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency from its Hayabusa2 mission. After the first papers focused on the composition ...
On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...
Schematic of a proposed space mining setup that literally bags asteroids. Credit: TransAstra. The aerospace industry has a new, highly ambitious (some might say crazy) plan for securing off-world ...
A multidisciplinary team led by Andrew Ryan has published new work that pins Bennu’s unexpectedly low thermal inertia on ...
Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...
A mysterious spike of platinum buried deep in Greenland’s ice has long fueled theories of a catastrophic comet or asteroid strike 12,800 years ago—possibly triggering a sudden return to icy conditions ...
These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show ...
In one of the biggest surprises of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier ...
TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 ...
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